Quote Originally Posted by tlowe View Post
It's great to hear of success stories like this.
What firmware did you have?
Which one does the control have now?
I had 6.6184 that came from over 10 years ago.
Now I have 6.6407

So far it is perfect. I have verified long programs and they are much faster. I would say 5 times faster. Graphics update is fast now, like when you change the view.

They transferred all my coordinate systems and user parameters and tool offsets . . . everything.

They asked me how I wanted the networking set up and I said to use TCP/IP with a static address. But then they started to explain how I couldn't connect to it with the firewall turned on and that just wasn't acceptable on my network. So I switched it back to netBEUI like I had it before. My setup is with an old Windows 2000 Pro machine that has two network cards in it. One card is netBEUI connecting only to the mill the other card connects to the rest of my network. My CAD/CAM laptop can write g-code directly to the Windows 2000 computer. Then I just walk over to the mill select that same network location on the Windows 2000 computer and press run. Easy peezy lemon squeezy.



Cheers
Dave