Low performace in a LAN

Zucarita9000

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Here's the basic setup:

1. Windows 98SE machine.
1. Windows 2000 SP3

Each PC has a 10/100MB NIC, connected via a 10MB HUB. Both NICs are Autosensing, and have only TCP/IP as communication protocol.
The Windows 2000 machine has IP 192.168.0.1 with DHCP and ICS. The W98 gets a IP from the 2k via DHCP (ICS requires it, something like 192.168.0.203).
Internet Connection Sharing works flawlessly, and every user in the 98 computer is an active user (Administrator, with no restrictions whtsoever) in the 2k box.

My problem is that file copying performance is somewhat... weird? When copying FROM the 2k machine TO the 98 machine, the speed is normal. BUT, when transfering FROM 98 TO 2k, is as slow as hell.... and I mean slow. Try 10 minutes or so for 2MB of data.

I don't know waht can be wrong... I can't be the cable, nor de HUB, nor the NICs... the speed is correct one way. Should this be the problem, both speeds would be wrong... right?

I've applied a reg fix that improves browsing of 98 computers in the LAN, this worked just fine, but it did not improve file copy performance.

I've tried with a crossover (PC to PC, no HUB) cable, the same happened.

Need help, FAST.

Thanks a lot.
 

zCypher

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Aug 18, 2002
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It's likely the settings on your Win98 machine. JackMDS helps a lot of people in the networking forum here, maybe he can help you out in more detail. Good luck!
 

zephyrprime

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A lot of people have this problem. Just search the windows network usenet forum and you'll see what I mean. I had the same problem as you with the same versions of windows as you but with somewhat less severity. I read far and wide and I never found a solution other than to use another networking protocol. No ones seems to really know what the source of the problem is either.
 

SladeZero

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Hey there,

Yea...Netbeui will do it. It's more for direct connections from my experience. I have even had probs with comps
not showing up on my homenetwork unless I did NETBEUI. Go fig. Glad it works.

SladeZero