I've got a server and a desktop machine in my room, hooked up to a D-Link DSS 1105, which is then subsequently plugged into my D-Link router. My router, switch, and NIC cards are all "Fast Ethernet" or 100 mbit/s, however, whenever I transfer something between the two, it will only go at a max of 1.25 mB/s, or 10 mbit/s.
All my drivers are up to date, and Windows Updates are all installed. I have no idea what could be the bottleneck here. To my knowledge all my cables are cat5.
>>1
Cable length/type/condition, equipment specs/condition, HD speeds (seems this is Windows, so fragmentation could possibly be an issue), processor speed, ...
>>5
bullshit, i get ~10mbyte/sec in my lan, windows can't be the issue.
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Anonymous2006-11-01 17:35
1. connect computers directly
2. test transfer speed
3. draw conclusions
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Junior2006-11-01 17:56
Number 7, I don't have a cross-over cable to do that. I've already connected my computer straight to the router, and the speeds are the same, so the problem is not the switch.
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Anonymous2006-11-01 19:51
it looks like it's using the net to upload, rather than the LAN.
one of your nics or your switch or your router is only 10 base T, not 10/100 and this is why you fail at networking
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Anonymous2006-11-02 3:02
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I fail at networking, and you don't know that "Fast Ethernet" is what's used to refer to 100 mb/s in most instances? Do you think I'm not competent enough to read product manuals to ensure that they support 100 mbit/s--or "fast ethernet", as every manual also referred to it as.
Through some trouble-shooting, and a trying a few different routers, I found that the software firewall I was using was the culprit. Probably due to the fact that it was cracked software--in any case, I guess I'll just be adding more rules to my router.
>>12 I'm not competent enough to read product manuals
That's the reason most people begin threads here. That or trolling.
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Anonymous2006-11-02 5:18
BUFFER TO HOST != PLATTER TO BUFFER.
A single IDE hard drive can NOT sustain any transfer rate thas relevent to your interests.
It takes a fuckload of time to get the data into the buffer and for large transfers (anything over the buffer size (2mb to 16mb) the transfer rate will slow to a crawl.
Soloution, set up a RAID in stripe mode, this combines drives and gives you a much better sustained burst, moar drives = faster sustain, whilst one buffer empties the machine works on filling the other(s)
Another way would be to install a fuckload of solid memory storage, this will give you insane speeds and max out your connection.
Bear in mind that the overall speed is also dependant on the client and the server.
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Anonymous2006-11-02 19:10
Methinks that >>1-san doesn't understand the difference between megabits per second and megabytes per second. You can indeed transfer around ten megabytes a second on a hundred megabits per second connection (comms overhead and latency eating the extra megabyte).