Hub or switch

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From: Bart (bigbart5_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/03/04 

Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 14:43:01 GMT

I have just set-up a network with three PCs connected to an old server via a
hub. The server has various external drives connected via firewire, USB2 and
firewire 800. We occasionally backup a lot of data from any of the PCs to
any of the external drives on the server.

The first time we tried to backup some data (200GB) onto the external drive
it took well over 24 hours. My thinking is that the hub is not dual speed
and only 10baseT. Do I need to upgrade to a dual speed hub or are there
other things I can try first, like perhaps changing some settings on the
network PCI card (duplex mode?)? Would a switch be better for transferring
this amount of data?

Many thanks in advance

Bart.

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