InterLAN File Transfer too slow

From: Mike Busch (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:58:37 -0800

I was the autonegoiate. It was locking me in at 100 half
and I guess for whatever reason a file transfer needs full
duplexing. So I disabled autoneg, locked it in at 100
full and the transfer is running strong now. Just needed
to learn Dell's web managament console to figure it out.

Mike

>-----Original Message-----
>Hey Guys,
>
>I recently got a new Dell Poweredge 2600 w/ Windows 2003
>Server to replace my aging file server. Got two
>powerconnect managed gigaswitches so that the new Dell
>server could run at full speed across the LAN. I have a
>handful of servers and PCs on the two new gigaswitches.
>My laptop is one of them. For some reason file transfer
>between my machine and any of the servers on the
>gigaswitch is ungodly slow(10 MBs in 20 minutes)! I've
>tried to put myself on either switch and haven't noticed
a
>difference.
>
>I'm looking for advice on how to trouble shoot the
>problem? Advice, articles, links, any suggestion you
>might have would be appreciated. The problem only seems
>to manifest itself on my machine trying to access those
>few servers on the gigaswitches.
>
>Is it auto negotiate? The weird thing is Yesterday I
>tried the file transfer once and it ran like normal. I
>was like WTF!?! But an hour later it was back to
normal.
>Is it some sort of broadcast traffic? A process running
on
>only my machine? My NIC is having trouble with the new
>gigaswitch? I'm going to continue to test but will check
>back periodically to see if you all have any ideas.
>
>Thanks,
>Mike Busch
>.
>

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