Re: New Network - Win98 & WinXP mixed,,, sloooow transfer rates,,, any HELP??

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Bob,

have you tried disabling the antivirus and firewall to make the test?
Does the router support 100mbps connections?
is it a hub or a switch?
is there a collisions light flashing during transmission?

RT


"Bob Smith" <na6t@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> I just formatted C on a local win98/winXP dual boot computer.
> Win98 is installed on the C: drive and WinXP is installed on
> the D:/ drive. I'm using the WinXP boot manager to do the
> dual boot.
>
> This computer is in a network with 4 other winXP computers via
> an 8 port Linksys Router w/WAN connection to Internet
>
> All the NIC cards in all the computers are Intel Pro PCI 100+ cards
>
> 1@ Win98 cpu -- PIII 1ghz (30gb hard drive 768mb memory)
> 1@ WinXP cpu - PIII 1.4ghz (60gb hard drive 1gb memory)
> 2@ winXP cpu - P4 2.2ghz (120gb hard drive 1gb memory)
>
> I have the cards set at "auto detect" but have tried all the
> combinations of 100/hdp and 100/fulldp, etc.
>
> I've tried the reg hack in HKLM///namespace
> I've tried to give more priority to the 'background' tasks' and
> the network through configuring the QOS bandwidth.
> I've tried the Adaptive IFS reg hack
> Ive tried transfers to the other computer via 'network places" (ie:
> drive not mapped on sending computer) and i've tried transfers to
> the mapped drive on the sending computer.
>
> and a few other hacks, well i'm still at the same place.
>
> I'm transfering a 258MB folder from the Win98 to the WinXPpro machine
> and vis-versa for the testing. This folder consists of 19 rar files.
> I've tried both 'move' and "copy" when doing the test. Neither of
> these operations varies the time for movement of the file between
> computers.
>
> I'm using windows Explorer to do the transfer of the folder,
> ie: right clik-->send to-->other folder-->etc.
>
> Win98 to WinXP 1:45 min. - approx 19mb/sec
> WinXp to Win98 3:00 min - approx 11.4 mb/sec
> WinXp to WinXP 2:40 min - approx 12.88 mb/sec
>
> This seems real slow compared to the what the network 'could' do,,
>
> where am I going wrong?
>
> all help will be accepted and i'll try just about anything that looks
> good,,
> thanks,
>
>
> Bob Smith
> Fort Bragg, California
>


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