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| Thread ID: 81448 | 2007-07-28 05:01:00 | Home Network transfering data at a snails pace | Sergio (928) | Press F1 |
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| 573417 | 2007-07-29 05:35:00 | Could be the NICs themselves. Things would most probably move faster if everything was gigabit. Could be firewalls or as Tweake said AV programs. Altho I havent had probs with Avast running and xferring files. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 573418 | 2007-07-29 05:51:00 | your pcs don't have ancient old 10M network cards do they? because that would be almost the right kind of speed for a 10M network if you mean the transfer speed reported by windows which is in bytes 700 * 8 to give bits = 5.6M, a little low but you can never achieve the actual stated speed of a network due to overheads etc. also depends on whether there's any other network traffic going on at the time, and make sure you only copy 1 file at a time using windows file sharing as it really can't handle multiple copies at once. You could get a crossover cable and connect 2 pc's directly together, and see what transfer speeds that gives you. Or unplug 3 of the 5 from the switch to see if that makes a difference. Also how long have you had the switch, you're sure it's not a hub? because hubs run much slower than swithces |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 573419 | 2007-07-29 08:45:00 | Thats most useful advice. I have copied the information from the "box" - it says its a N-Way switch.........presume thats right. Also, yes I am copying more than one file at a time, so will change that and see if it helps. As for the "old Cards" - maybe this is the problem as they are several years old in all cases. How do I tell? Incidentally, network not being used for anything else at the same time (including Internet) and I have tried with Avast shut down as thought it might have been trying to virus check everything on the way through, - but no. |
Sergio (928) | ||
| 573420 | 2007-07-29 08:50:00 | What does it say theyre connected at?? 10, 100? or 1GB? If any are gigabit adapters. Click on the 2 monitors in the taskbar. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 573421 | 2007-07-29 09:38:00 | Remove IPv6 from the Vista PC NIC's.... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 573422 | 2007-07-29 10:02:00 | It says "speed" 100 Mbps but that looks like a fixed figure......... I will have a go at disconnecting IPv6 in the morning, - thanks for the tips. |
Sergio (928) | ||
| 573423 | 2007-07-29 21:39:00 | just to clarify the comment I made about multiple copies at once - it's ok to select a group of files all together and copy them in one go, windows will do them one at a time anyway. Just don't start one transfer, then start another while that one's still copying - both will crawl until one finishes, this is true even from one hdd to another in the same pc, but especially so over a network. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 573424 | 2007-07-29 21:52:00 | Thanks for clarifying that........often wondered why transfers between disks could be slow when copying several folders not selected together....... | Sergio (928) | ||
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