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slow transfering files.......

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ALstonLoong

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HI ,
My neighbour is sharing internet connection with me. WE have 6 computers ... becuase his house and mine place not so near....so i only manage to use 100ft(50 + 50) of cat5 cables to connect from the hub to his computer. I am using a 100 base hub uplink to a 10 base hub. His cat5 cables is connected to the 10 base hub. The problem is when we transfering files(about 250mb) from his pc to mine pc ....it takes about more then a hour to transfer ..is this normal? Is there anyway i can speed up the transfer ?thanks

 
You're not kidding us here, are you? You're really doing this?

...and you don't understand why things are running slow?

It's running slow for the same reason you can't walk up a vertical wall barefoot. It's because the phrase is not "Suggestions of Physics."

You are outside the envelope of operation for Ethernet-over-UTP. You are completely out-of-spec for the cabling (I'm assuming it's going outdoors, if not, I apologize).

You stretched the rules, and the price paid is slow performance.

That's it in a nutshell.

Good Luck

Scott
 
That does sound pretty accurate for the setup you have. If you want to speed up your access, this is what you have to do.

#1 Get all 10/100 switches in his network and yours.
#2 Get high quality CAT5e cable. Get outdoor grade CAT5e for any section that goes outside.
#3 You might need to get a repeater for any section of cable that goes over 100 feet.

Obvious answer
#4 GET YOUR OWN DSL/CABLE MODEM!

Try those things. 🙂
 
Also note that although the RFC CAT5 spec is 100 m (~365'), that spec does NOT take into account anything tapped into the ethernet, ie., the hubs. Each time you add a hub to the segment, you effectively shorten the length. So if you have some major traffic going across the line, then the chances are very good that the signal strength is down a significant amount, and so the 2 machines have to continually retransmit.

I agree with Nightfall - you can't be cheap about this. You might do better with Coax/solid core cabling to get extra distance and/or use a repeater, or just get your own! 😛

Edit: speeling
 


<< I am using a 100 base hub uplink to a 10 base hub >>



very interesting, I forgot about the spec that provided this functionality but this is supposed to force your network to re-clock to 1200 baud. pretty slow.

😀

try using 100 baseT on both ends and make sure the cable is top notch. 100 meg ethernet is very picky about cabling when it comes to performance.
 
well thanks for the advice guys ....later on if i able to get 8 port hub or a switch ...then i will change it.I think quality cat5 cable will help too. thanks
 
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