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| 573407 | 2007-07-28 05:01:00 | I have a small home network, - 5 PC's linked with cat 5 cable. I am finding that transferring large files (about 2.5 Gbs) between any two PC's is so slow, - eg 700 Kbs/sec. The network does have an Internet connection but when transferring files internally the Net is not used, nor are any of the PC's working, - ie all resources available to the file transfer on the network. How do I diagnose where the problem is? Thanks Sergio |
Sergio (928) | ||
| 573408 | 2007-07-28 06:47:00 | Ummmmmmmmm.... burn it 2 DVD and pop the disc into the destination PC drive and copy it that way. Alternatively, rebuild the network from scratch and see if that helps. Personally I would rather have a central storage area like a file server or something similar if I was going to be moving files of that size. It would help to keep your network overhead down. Of course now comes the obvious question... What exactly are you copying? At 2.5GB's it must be video files... |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 573409 | 2007-07-28 08:03:00 | 5 PC's is a small home network ? Yes I think you need a server and an office Regards Digby |
Digby (677) | ||
| 573410 | 2007-07-28 09:32:00 | Thanks The files are actually Acronis Images of each PC on the network, - sort of insurance !! |
Sergio (928) | ||
| 573411 | 2007-07-28 12:04:00 | I have a small home network, - 5 PC's linked with cat 5 cable. I am finding that transferring large files (about 2.5 Gbs) between any two PC's is so slow, - eg 700 Kbs/sec. The network does have an Internet connection but when transferring files internally the Net is not used, nor are any of the PC's working, - ie all resources available to the file transfer on the network. How do I diagnose where the problem is? Thanks Sergio What router you using? |
jermsie (6820) | ||
| 573412 | 2007-07-28 20:28:00 | Thanks The files are actually Acronis Images of each PC on the network, - sort of insurance !! Well if that's the case why the heck are transferring them to other PC's on the network... it might be a good idea to keep your back-up images off the actual PC's you're backing up. The whole idea behind disaster recovery is to have back-up copies in a separate site from the actual computers... in other words you don't want to store them on the same network they are connected to. Just doesn't make sense what you're doing. Cheers |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 573413 | 2007-07-29 03:55:00 | The router is a DSE 8 Port/100Mbps N-Way Switch...... I'm not keeping the Images on the same PC's, - each image is stored on a different PC for exactly that reason. As a final precaution all images are backed up to an external HDD, - I think this is reasonably safe. |
Sergio (928) | ||
| 573414 | 2007-07-29 04:27:00 | The router is a DSE 8 Port/100Mbps N-Way Switch...... I'm not keeping the Images on the same PC's, - each image is stored on a different PC for exactly that reason. As a final precaution all images are backed up to an external HDD, - I think this is reasonably safe. Sounds like you're just doubling you work load? why don't you just back-up the images straight to the external HDD... less of an overhead. Cheers |
chiefnz (545) | ||
| 573415 | 2007-07-29 04:39:00 | may not actually be the network but one of the pc's. exspecially so with vurus scanning software. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 573416 | 2007-07-29 05:31:00 | Okay so if it might be one of the PC's are there any tweaks that can be done to the network setup, 2 are running Vista Ultimate and 3 XP Pro. | Sergio (928) | ||
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