Itseems to me that you need to check the drivers for the NICs. If you think about it, the machines are either sending or recieving about 6-9Megabytes per second max. If your pcs cannot handle that something is definitely amiss.
I transfered an entire harddrives' contents (28.3GB) from one pc to another this weeked over my SMC barricade router(Backing up before format) and It went quickly, about half an hour, and the sytems were fine. I was even using Terminal Server to the machine receiving data the whole time(runing apps etc..heY! i WAS BOREED OKAY!?!). anyways it was quick and painless.
As for getting Gigabit eithernet...don't
basically don't buy "heavy duty speaker wire when you have a $200 stereo and $50 speakers"
Serisuly, do you know what GIGABIT costs?You'll have to forgive me for being adament on the subject, but it has become a common occurence for people to want GIGABIT without regarding the costs, and without thinking about the preformance in day to day activites.
I already reponded to a question like ths today ( look me up) but for the sake of saving a few of anand's search dollars...here we go
1.
You can buy GIGBIT switches with a GIGABIT port, however, it has 1 GIGABIT PORT, which is the uplink port. all of the other ports are 10/100. WHy spend the money? Well if you have all of the clients trying to access the server at the same time, that can equate to a theoretical-total request of a bout 40MBps or 80MBps in dublex mode. Of course, Duplex mode only handles a maximum of 200Mps or about 20MB/s max(Probably about 15 or so in real life) Anyways, I assume you see the bottleneck to the server. THe uplink aids in this providing a fast connection. Of course, you need a hell of a fast server(a GOOD one basically) to get the job done
Cost: about $150 for a kit.(Linksys, Netgear i think, others)
2.
You can also opt for a TRUE Gigabit switch that has all 10/100/1000 ports, such as a Netgear. WHat is the problem here? WEll, for starters, THe pci bus on a regular dektop machine will limit the bandwidth of any card to about 20MB/s. Second, you would need to have workstations capaple of supporting 66mhz 64-bit pci cards to take advantage of the speed? What then is the problem you ask?
SPEED..SERVERSIDE.
These Machines of your are going to be greedy little bastards. they are going to want gigabit speeds from the server, and in some cases, all at the same time. This equates to about an estimated maxium of about 80MBps x4 or 8(basically number of root clients) so If you want GIGABIT speeds, your server will have to be able to put out(heh) at a sustained maximum of about 320MB/s.(damn:Q) For that you can forget IDE or even plain SCSI. SCSI RAID is a must for such an application. A seagate 36lp shoots out about 70MB/s sustained so you get the picture....
Cost: Netgear 8port 10/100/1oo0 swtch retails for $1500
Take into account cabling, NICs $70-100 a piece for 1000T varieties)
This of course is a worst case scenario...but I just wanted to scare you out of making a "foolish
" purchase.
I remeber the good 'ole days of setting HPs on fire in Cirsuit City to show how fammable they were, in addition to their other drawbacks...
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