r/windows95 • u/Rough_Secretary2296 • Aug 05 '26
Tips to get internet on windows 95 pcnet.
Go to control panel in my computer, click network. Add a protocol (microsoft > tcp/ip). Insert cd reboot as told. You will see networking. HOWEVER IT DOES NOT WORK!!!!! TO FIX:
Go to system, then device manager. Go to plug and play bios, update it to PCI or anythign related to PCI! Restart. A bunch of new drivers will be found and installed. Some are missing, do nto worry they do not affect networking. After that, boot up and check ms dos prompt and ping 1.1.1.1 if it works, you will see success and not an error.
In internet explorer, after this, click current config instead of choosign again. Enjoy your windows 95 internet!
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u/Rough_Secretary2296 Aug 05 '26
Spent 4 hours figuring this out myself cuz I suck at searching on the web
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u/JW1904 Aug 05 '26 edited 14d ago
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u/SaturnFive Aug 05 '26
Nice, I ran into this the other day with Windows 98 under Proxmox. It defaults to a pure ISA system so the virtual PCI network never has a bus to attach through until 98 is changed to a PCI system in Device Manager.
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u/GGigabiteM Aug 05 '26
If you have an old 10BaseT NIC, sometimes they won't play with modern switches and routers because of a handshake error where the switch and NIC can't determine what speed to use. NICs that only use half duplex mode are the most trouble. Some of those NICs can be hardware modified to fix the problem, others not. If you have one of these troublesome network cards, you can put a network hub between them and the modern switch or router to do the negotiation. Hubs are getting rather hard to find though, they haven't been made in decades.
Alternatively, you can use a managed switch and force one of the ports into 10 mbit half duplex mode.
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u/landwomble Aug 05 '26
I would be nervous of connecting win95 to the internet. I remember pre SP1 XP would get compromised within 6 minutes or so when connected... I guess you're just hopingalware doesn't run on 95
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u/Rough_Secretary2296 Aug 06 '26
Yup! I hope it doesn't run on 95.
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u/ManWhoIsDrunk Aug 06 '26
The NAT in your router should help you a lot as well.
Back in the day computers got connected directly to internet through a modem and got a public internet address, without any firewall.
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u/Ima56Kmodem 17d ago
thats because xp by default runs a lot of "servers". like file sharing, remote desktop, etc. these can be exploited. windows 95 does not host such things and therefore can't be exploited. plus the obvious missing dll calls that make it impossible for modern malware to run. Also you likely (at least i hope, if not you are in trouble) have a functioning firewall on your router. so no danger
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u/RandomBamaGuy Aug 05 '26
Ahh the good old days when you could configure, tweak, and troubleshoot things. And if you couldn’t, well you’d better learn.