Slow ethernet file transfers

[EdMcMan]

I have always had an odd problem with Ethernet where my file transfers will move in one second "spurts". It's almost like every other second it's sending, and then every other second it's doing nothing. I always assumed it was a firewall or avast's network scanning.

I just reinstalled though, and the first thing I did was to see if still did the 'spurts'. It did.

I also tried swapping the cable with no sucess. Other people on my lan don't have this problem. I'm out of ideas!

My motherboard is an Asus A8v Deluxe. It has the Marvell Yukon Gigabit ethernet, but I'm only running it at 100 mbps. I am running Windows XP w/ SP2, but used to be running the 64 bit version.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[amdskip]

So are you hooked up to a router or switch? What else is in the network path that might be bad?

 

[EdMcMan]

I live in a 4 room suite. I imagine that we are all plugged into the same switch.

One thing I should probably mention is that we use a weird network setup. Our subnets are 255.255.255.248, so everything must go through a router even on the lan.

 

[SolMiester]

Perhaps the node on the wall, have you tried plugging into another socket or are you cabled straight to the switch?

 

[EdMcMan]

I am pretty sure the socket is fine. I don't have this problem on my laptop.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: EdMcMan
I am pretty sure the socket is fine. I don't have this problem on my laptop.

If you don't have this with your laptop then that leaves the cable, the NIC and the drivers.

Just because one cable works with one machine, doesn't make it good for another. The jack could very well be bad as well.

I'd swap network cables as well as the nic and see what happens.

 

[nweaver]

your laptop may negotiate speed and duplex correctly. Speed problems fall into a couple, which Spidey hit: Physical (Cable, ports, bad H/W), Datalink (Driver, link negotiation) and network (IP stack, driver, application/OS)

Move the computer to another port, with another cable. Try playing with your duplex and speed settings. If your switch is managed, log in and check for errors, get an older driver, and a newer driver to see if that makes a difference.