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Fujitsu siemens poor network speed

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juk75

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Hi there
I have a network using 2 brand new file servers: Primergy Fujitsu Siemens with Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Network cards and 16 Fujitsu-Siemens pcs using intel pro/100/1000 Network cards. All running W XP Professional and the servers W2k3 Standard Ed. The servers are 100 Mbps and pcs 10Mbps.
Everything seems to be right but I'm using one server as a domain server and the transfer of files is very slow. Cheking the network card activity of XP/W2k3 computers, it hardly reachs 10%. That results in downloading 200MB in 30min when I'm lucky. The network traffic is not very important because I'm only setting up configuration and there is a little us of the network. I contacted the networking guys here where I work and they say that the problem is the network card... but all of them? I can hardly believe that.
Can you suggest any test that I can do with my network cards? I think the problem is a configuration on the network switches but I'm not sure. Can you suggest any test that can be driven?

Thanks very much

Juan C
 
1. waht are the links set to on each device? set them to 100Mbps Full-duplex since you are sticking with 100. If they are all on a hub, there is your problem.

2. Also, make sure they are plugged into a 10/100 switch (i know, it is obvious but what the hell) assumign that tehy are on the same subnet.

3. have them ping each other and analyze the results to see high access times or lost packets. Check your cables while you are at it.

 
Thanks for your reply.

The servers are set to 100Mbps and most of the clients to 10Mbps all in full duplex. The speed is controlled by the switch (they are all in the same subnet). If I use the windows Auto detect for speed it works better than specifying 10Mbps or 100Mbps. I'm thinking that the switch is not working properly or is misconfigured. I took one computer to another network and it is working OK, but when I put it back to my network, again it's very slow.

I tried using the ping. I got this:

Packets: Sent = 306, Received = 304, Lost = 2 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 2ms, Average = 0ms

 
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