Network bridge killing transfer speeds on my Wireless network...

[Daelomin]

HI everyone,

I am new here 🙂

I recently networked a Satellite A70 RT1 running XP through my Network Everywhere NWR04B wifi router to an old Celeron 400 running Win2k through LAN on that same router.

I then tried to install file sharing on the laptop (I had it installed on the desktop to retrieve files through an ftp) but then my ftp transfers (usually in the 500k) dropped and actually stopped. I investigated a bit and found out that the network bridge that XP installed through its networking assistant was the reason why they had slowed down so much.

I know that coz the minute I deleted the network bridge, the ftp speeds went right back to normal. Now, my question is as follows: I dont quite understand what the bridge does and why it would slow down speeds so much.

Does anyone have a take on that one?

Thanks again!

 

[sswingle]

A bridge connects two networks together. XP commonly does it by default if it see's a firewire port. It puts a bridge between a firewire network and the ethernet network, so computers on each can see each other. Supposedly.

I don't know why it would kill your connection, unless it was getting confused and trying to use the bridged network instead of the correct one.