Re: Slow File Transfer revisited (Dell servers)
From: Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP] (kweilbacMVP_at_gte.net)
Date: 11/20/04
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Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 08:13:01 -0500
Bill, I have a good switch...
I guess you're implying that yoy don't like Intel NIC cards...
When I switched the NIC card to Autosense, it still maintains a 100Mbps connection...
You can have your opinion on Dell servers ... but I've been running them at my sites for many years, and my only h/w problems have been a couple of raid drives (which were on site the next morning), and a DLT tape unit. Otherwise, everyone is rock solid.
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Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
"Bill" <Bill@microsoft.com> wrote in message news:ONmw%23RvzEHA.2012@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
A good SWITCH helps
even with Crapy Dell server...
even with $2 network cards...
Modern switches like AutoSense
"Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]" <kweilbacMVP@gte.net> wrote in message news:ewh%23o$rzEHA.4004@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
This is an FYI post:
We get a lot of posts complaining of slow file transfers from workstation to the SBS server. The first suggestion we make is to disable SMB signing, which is properly described at www.smallbizserver.net. The other thing we suggest is to switch your NIC card away from autosense/autodetect.
I've had a server that has had the same 'slow file transfer' symptoms for two weeks, and yet nothing I did fixed the problem. Finally, tonight, I had a chance to 'google' through this newsgroup looking for other ideas. I found a post from Chad Gross (in August) saying that with Dell servers in particular, that he had to set the NIC card back to autosense to fix the slow file transfer problem.
Well, I connected up, switched the server NIC back to autosense, and reran an 80mb file transfer that previously took 11 minutes to complete. This time it took 30 seconds!
Thanks, Chad!
Thanks, Google!
Thanks, Dell (not!)
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Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
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