Re: Network transfer speeds

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From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 07/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:44:06 -0400

Hi - I think you may've meant to post this as a reply, not a new message?

BTW, I use full duplex all the time and it rocks. :-)

anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
> 1. What speed do you get when transferring a small amount
> of data? ie; less than 1 MB. Maybe the file system and
> caching required to move that much all in one fell swoop
> is choking and it's not the network.
>
> 2. I've had terrible results when attempting to enable
> full duplex....don't use it! 100Mbit ethernet should move
> appx 8MB per second, not Mbits, MegaBytes. 1GB Should take
> 2 to 3 hours.
>
> 3. Did you make the crossover cable? Make sure to keep the
> twisted pairs together, it's not just a matter of matching
> pins 1,2,3,6 to 3,6,1,2. Keep the pair 1&2 twisted
> together connecting to 3&6 on the other side. Do you not
> have a hub? This SHOULD work, done it myself when I just
> don't have a hub. Also make sure you are using CAT-5
> cable. CAT-3 does not support 100mbit. It will say on the
> cable.
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> I'm back again. In relation to a message that I posted
>> yesterday - see below:
>> ("I've set up a network between my laptop and my desktop
>> and I need to transfer approx 6gb of data from my laptop
>> to my desktop using a crossover cable. the desktop
>> recognises the shared files but when I go to copy them
>> across the transfer speed drops to about 12Kbps (Yes,
>> thats Kbps). Using my broadband connection I am getting
>> approx 58Kbps on my laptop but using the same connection
>> on my desktop will give me a speed of only 10-13 Kbps.
>> I've set and reset the duplex modes on both PCs. I've even
>> replaced the network card on my desktop just in case it
>> was faulty. The bottleneck is obviously on my desktop but
>> I can't figure out where. Both machines run XP Home.
>> My desktop is a Dell, 1.6ghz, 768mb SDRAM with approx 30gb
>> of free space").
>> I haven't had a solution or any ideas to sort the problem
>> so if anyone could help me in any way I would be eternally
>> grateful as this is doing my ******* head in!!!!!!
>> Ta.
>>
>> .

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