Slow home network

[DioCassius]

Me and my roommate are sharing a cable modem, so we both hook up to a hub, which then goes to the modem. We are both set up for the @home workgroup, but when i click on My Network Places, then go to @home, he doesn't show up(and the same when he does it, i don't show up). We have to seach for the computer name. When i was using WindowsMe, it was not fast, but not too slow either. Now I've moved to Win2k and it is incredibly slow. It takes 10 minutes to send a print job to his printer, and attempting to copy an mp3 resulted in a 14 minutes remaining display - then 30 minutes later, it said 11 min remaining. Is there anything we can do to fix this. Thanks

 

[cavingjan]

Try using a different protocol for the home things. Like NetBeui. Unbind file and printer sharing from TCP/IP and bind it with the NetBeui. It won't havbe to travel through the cable modem anymore then.

 

[DioCassius]

I set both computers to bind to ipx/spx for file sharing/printing, since i could not find netbeui on the winME machine(my roommates). However, it is still the same slow speed. Is there anything else i need to do?

 

[DioCassius]

do i want to enable netbios?

 

[BigLance]

Both machines have IP's set right ?

 

[DioCassius]

yep

 

[tkdkid]

try looking around speedguide.net

maybe a reg patch or something will fix the problem.

Linked:
Speedguide.net

 

[esung]

You don't need to enable NETBIOS for your network.. since you don't have any NETBIOS apps. and did you unbind file/printer sharing for TCP/IP?

 

[sadb0i]

what type of hub?
10 or 10/100...if its 10...its gonna be slow..but not 14 min mp3 slow...you know you might have different protocols running cause your computers to have to translate the data...

 

[DioCassius]

I did unbind tcp/ip, and the hub is 10, but isn't that 10mbps? Not getting near that. And both the comps should be using the same protocol now. I check speedguide.net.

 

[sadb0i]

10 mbps is like 1.2..1.3 megs a sec...its considered very slow...gotta go 100mbps=10meg/s...its your hub...try another 10/100 hub...youll see the difference trust me!

 

[DioCassius]

but its slow sending a print job, maybe 150KB, which should take less than a second. It's slow browsing too.

 

[RockEater]

did either of you install firewall software? my roommate installed norton firewall and we were getting horrible pings in things like CS because the wall wasn't allowing most applications to use certain ports and stuff and his net performance was totally crippled by restrictions

probably not the case here, but I thought it was worth mentioning

good luck

 

[DioCassius]

Good thought, but we haven't. Right now it's faster to set up an ftp and transfer over the internet, despite att@home upload cap of 16KBps.

 

[DioCassius]

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