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My network seems to be sluggish!

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MangoTBG

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I am trying to stream large cdimages from one PC to another. They are hooked up via crossover cable and two 10/100 NICs. Both drives, the one that is being streamed off of and being streamed to, are WD 8mb Cache hdds. I figured I would be maxing out the drive's read/write speed but I'm only getting 6Mbits/s.


Do I need to enable something or am I just missing something completely? I'm using Windows Explorer to access the primary computer.


Btw, 6Mbits is hardly enough to stream-install something because what should take 5 minutes seems to take 20.


Thanks in advanced!
 
well, first off I'd look at the cable. If it is a store bought cable then we could rule that out - if it is homemade that is likely the culprit.

next I'd make sure both nics are set to auto speed/duplex. If one card is running half duplex and the other is full then you'd get about 4-6 Mbs.

After that we can talk about 6 MEGABITS/sec vs 6 MEGABYTES/sec. if the latter then you're at the bottom end of 100 megabit perfomrance. if the former then something is awry.
 
It is, in deed 6Mbits/s...as in ~700KBytes/s


Where can I find the settings for full/half duplex? That may be my problem! Thanks!
 
Originally posted by: MangoTBG
It is, in deed 6Mbits/s...as in ~700KBytes/s


Where can I find the settings for full/half duplex? That may be my problem! Thanks!
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under your network card settings, in network control panel. the default is to auto sense. if you're really seeing 700 Kbytes/sec on a 100 Base-T network then something is awry.
 
Ok...i feel like shooting myself. I set this network up a month ago to share my internet w/ my second computer. I forgot that instead of using my PCI LAN card I used a USB NIC. The USB NIC is rather old so I suspect it being a USB1.1 device which isn't its theoretical max through put like 11Mbits/s which means that realworld throughput would be right around the speeds that I'm getting?

I'm going to have to find my PCI NIC and toss that back in my computer...thanks for your help and sorry for being stupid!!!
 
ALright, it was my stupidity....my PCI NIC is giving me 75Mbits/s plus, 6-9MBytes/s! Hehe. I knew something was wrong!
 
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