Iain Miller wrote:
> "CJT" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>Dan wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Wow I had the exact same problem with an "XP<------->ME" Network
>>>connection. I had so many problems trying to get TCP\IP to transfer
>>>files above like 12k, so I was exploring different protocals. Started
>>>with IPX\NWlink and the file tranfer rate problem was taken care of,
>>>but it was suddenly corrupting ALL of the files it transfered. Any
>>>data or media file had garbage or were simpliy inacessable. All of
>>>the corruption seemed to occur going upstream from the ME> to the XP
>>>machine(ME>----->XP). When I would transfer the other way around
>>>(XP>---->ME)There was great throughput and no corruption. After
>>>trying NWlink I set up NetBEUI on both machines, but the corruption
>>>was STILL a problem. I am going crazy here because I know the cable
>>>is good, and both of the network cards transfer onto other machines
>>>without a problem. the whole TCP\IP transfer rate is unacceptable
>>>because I have at least 10GB of important data that has to be
>>>transfered. I don't have a week to wait. Is there a registry setting
>>>that I can change on the Xp machine that will allow for a faster Xfer
>>>rate under TCP\IP, or maybe there is some way to solve the packet
>>>corruption. Thanks for any contribution.
>>>
>>>Daniel Lightsey
>>
>>try transferring via FTP in binary mode
>
>
> No, try forgetting transferring between ME & XP & upgrade the ME Machine to
> XP.
If upgrading the OS is an option, skip XP and go straight to Linux.
I struggled with ME to XP & vice versa for months & got inconsistent
> results all over the place - never the same transfer speed twice. I changed
> the cables, the NICs and reloaded & reconfigured both OS's. Eventually in
> desparation I used my existing copy of XP & upgraded the ME (obviously
> without activating the XP!) to see if that would fix it . Lo and behold it
> did - both my machines have fairly quick disk systems and I can get
> sustained rates of 10 MB/s (not Megabits, MegaBytes!) in either direction if
> I'm transferring large files. That's around 80% utilization which is the
> most you'd ever see on 100meg network given TCP/IP overheads etc. For
> multiple file transfers I get about 5-6MB/s.
>
> So I went out & bought another copy of XP & installed that, threw ME in the
> bin & havn't had a problem since.
>
> I don't know what the problem with ME-XP is but I did read something,
> somewhere about there being some buggy/incorrect code in the 98/ME IP stack.
> That said, it wasn't any better using FTP or NetBEUI do maybe there is more
> to it.....
>
> One thing though, I never saw any file corruption that I know of so I'm not
> sure why you are getting that.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> I.
>
>
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