Slow Home Network X-Fer times help!

[BillStuck]

I have an Win XP laptop 900mhz and plenty of RAM connected through a Linksys router to a Win ME 700mhz celeron desktop. When I transfer files from one to the other it is really slowwww!

I takes roughly 1.5 hours to transfer 2 GB and last night it took me 20-25 minutes to transfer 280MB. This should be allot faster right?

These transfers contain allot of small files @ 1MB each average. The celeron machine only has a 10T NIC Card in it and the Laptop a 10/100 NIC.

The router show the laptop connected at 100T and the desktop 10T. What could be causing the slow down? The slower card in the Desktop shouldn't make a difference should it? All latest drivers downloaded.

Please help cause I move files like this allot and its way to slow.

 

[CTho9305]

10T = 10baseT, which means in practice about 900kb/sec or so. What method did you use to transfer files? (FTP, HTTP, send via AIM 😉, windows file sharing, etc)

 

[BillStuck]

I'm using Windows File Sharing ie. copy/paste.

So if 10T is 900k/s then theortically I should be getting 280MB/900k per s = 280MB transfered in 5 minutes...I'm getting 20-25 minutes.

I think the laptop may have a 4300rpm drive but i'm not sure. In Dr. Hardware Benchmark scores it performs at the same level as a UDMA ATA/66 drive. What could the problem be?...ME and XP don't like each other?

 

[MrGrim]

Make sure the 10T card is setup as "autodetect" or "10MBIT Half Dublex". (under device manager)

 

[BillStuck]

Thanks. I checked and the card is set at 10T half duplex. I found some info on another message board about routers buffering packets when transfering files between a 10baseT machine and a 100baseT machine. I can't find any other info though. Wierd

 

[RanDum72]

Make sure the 10T card is setup as "autodetect" or "10MBIT Half Dublex". (under device manager)

Isn't full-duplex mode supposed to be faster?