Horribly slow LAN transfers
Let me fill you in with some info first. My PC is listed in my signature, with a 10/100mbit PCI ethernet card (RealTek 8139) My brothers PC is: AMD K6-2 500 Gigabyte GA-5AX 128MB SDRAM PC100 6. 4GB UDMA33 Samsung HDD Windows 2000 Pro 3dfx Velocity 100 gfx card SB PCI128 3com 3c900 Combo 10mbit PCI LAN card Both our ...
Let me fill you in with some info first.
My PC is listed in my signature, with a 10/100mbit PCI ethernet card (RealTek 8139)
My brothers PC is:
AMD K6-2 500
Gigabyte GA-5AX
128MB SDRAM PC100
6.4GB UDMA33 Samsung HDD
Windows 2000 Pro
3dfx Velocity 100 gfx card
SB PCI128
3com 3c900 Combo 10mbit PCI LAN card
Both our copmuters are connected via X-Over Cat5 Cable, no hubs or switches involved. As my bro's NIC is only 10mbit, our betwork is limited to that for the moment.
Now, I tried copying across a 50MB webpage from my computer today. There was a whole range of files ranging from gifs to mpegs etc. Now, this transfer of 50MB took 36 minutes!
That is horribly slow, and I don't know why it took so long.
Is there any reason why this might happen on an XP to 2000 transfer?
It is likely to be hardware or software?
It's never been this bad before, and games are usually fine over network.
Any help is appreciated, and if you need any more info, please ask.
My PC is listed in my signature, with a 10/100mbit PCI ethernet card (RealTek 8139)
My brothers PC is:
AMD K6-2 500
Gigabyte GA-5AX
128MB SDRAM PC100
6.4GB UDMA33 Samsung HDD
Windows 2000 Pro
3dfx Velocity 100 gfx card
SB PCI128
3com 3c900 Combo 10mbit PCI LAN card
Both our copmuters are connected via X-Over Cat5 Cable, no hubs or switches involved. As my bro's NIC is only 10mbit, our betwork is limited to that for the moment.
Now, I tried copying across a 50MB webpage from my computer today. There was a whole range of files ranging from gifs to mpegs etc. Now, this transfer of 50MB took 36 minutes!
That is horribly slow, and I don't know why it took so long.
Is there any reason why this might happen on an XP to 2000 transfer?
It is likely to be hardware or software?
It's never been this bad before, and games are usually fine over network.
Any help is appreciated, and if you need any more info, please ask.
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Yeah, DMA is enabled.
I should probably say that neither computer has any problems on it's own, but LAN transfers are ridiculously slow.
How can I enable DMA for LAN?
I should probably say that neither computer has any problems on it's own, but LAN transfers are ridiculously slow.
How can I enable DMA for LAN?
My advice is to the contrary. Do not use autsense on your NIC's, you don't really need them talking to each other all the time to see if they've gotten any faster. Set them to the fastest speed they both support, in most cases 100mbit, in your case 10mbit. Why you wouldn't like to use full duplex if you can is beyond me, at least if you want your LAN to be fast. Of course, if the old 10 mbit doesn't support full duplex thats a reason not to use it.
Equally, forget about netbeui, that is a protocol from days long before W2k/XP. In fact, XP doesn't even install it by default, and thats propably for a good reason.
With contradictory advice like this, try both, by all means.
H.
Equally, forget about netbeui, that is a protocol from days long before W2k/XP. In fact, XP doesn't even install it by default, and thats propably for a good reason.
With contradictory advice like this, try both, by all means.
H.
Hmm. Will have to experiment
