File Transfer Speeds on Home Network

[Tom]

I have two machines networked at home on a Netgear Router using Ethernet.
One is a Win2K SP4 Laptop and other is a Win XP SP2 Desktop. The file
transfer speeds between the seem very slow. Is there a setting or
something I can do to speed up the file transfer process? It seems that
things should fly but don't.

TIA!

 

[Tom]

An update!

The slow transfer occurs from the XP machine to the 2K machine. The other
direction is fine.

Any ideas appreciated!

Thanks

 

[David E. Ross]

An update!

The slow transfer occurs from the XP machine to the 2K machine. The other
direction is fine.

Any ideas appreciated!

Thanks

What speeds are you getting?

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[Tom]

Speed ranges from 50kbps to 200 kbps from the XP machine to the 2K machine.
In the other direction, it's like 20000kbps....really fast!

Thanks

 

[David E. Ross]

Speed ranges from 50kbps to 200 kbps from the XP machine to the 2K machine.
In the other direction, it's like 20000kbps....really fast!

Thanks

WinXP tells me that I have a 100 MBps ethernet connection to my wife's
Win98SE PC. That's about what the computer store told me I would get
when we first networked with both PCs being Win98SE. Actually, they
told me that was the capacity of the cable.

Since I got my new PC with WinXP, however, I haven't really checked
speeds. I'll try to do that soon, but we're very busy right now with
our son's wedding this weekend.

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[David E. Ross]

WinXP tells me that I have a 100 MBps ethernet connection to my wife's
Win98SE PC. That's about what the computer store told me I would get
when we first networked with both PCs being Win98SE. Actually, they
told me that was the capacity of the cable.

Since I got my new PC with WinXP, however, I haven't really checked
speeds. I'll try to do that soon, but we're very busy right now with
our son's wedding this weekend.

Oops! It's 100 Mbps (not MBps). That's 12.5 MBps.

Last night, a transfer of 625 MB from my WinXP to my wife's Win98SE took
about 6 min, which would be 1.7 MBps. A 6.62 GB transfer was
estimated at over 70 min, which I cancelled. The connection then died
for reasons unknown during a 1.2 GB transfer.

I have not yet tried a transfer in the opposition direction.

I notice that my WinXP is very slow in showing and opening shared
folders on my wife's Win98SE.

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[Tom]

Sounds like you are having the same problem I am.

Wish I new how to fix it.

 

[David E. Ross]

Sounds like you are having the same problem I am.

Wish I new how to fix it.

See my new thread "Network Connection Keeps Dying".

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