Help! Would Netbeui or IPX/SPX speed up network performance?

[Mike Polta]

Not getting much interest in this question......
Just setup our network with XP Home workstations and XP Pro on the file
server. All apps are working fine but the common complaint from the
users is SLOW performance. I've ordered a new 16 port switch to replace
the 10/100 hub. Would there be any advantage to setting up Netbeui or
adding IPX/SPX protocols? Would this help at all?
Again, thanks in advance! This newsgroup has been very helpful on these
projects.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

I'd wait until the switch is in place and re-evaluate the situation. In a
typical network no protocol has a significant advantage over another in
speed, usually the bottleneck is the physical network itself.

 

[Al Dykes]

I'd wait until the switch is in place and re-evaluate the situation. In a
typical network no protocol has a significant advantage over another in
speed, usually the bottleneck is the physical network itself.

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Not getting much interest in this question......
Just setup our network with XP Home workstations and XP Pro on the file
server. All apps are working fine but the common complaint from the
users is SLOW performance. I've ordered a new 16 port switch to replace
the 10/100 hub. Would there be any advantage to setting up Netbeui or
adding IPX/SPX protocols? Would this help at all?
Again, thanks in advance! This newsgroup has been very helpful on these
projects.

It depends on what your users are doing when they complain,,
and what your applications are.

SInce you are buying a 16 port switch, I'd guess you have less than 15
user PCs. With 15 machines running 100mbit ethernet I can't see that
a hub, or TCP, itself, is the bottleneck. Even 10MB ethernet shouldn't
be a problem.

What do the users have mapped to the server ?

There are some really crappy network applications out there. Your's might
be set up so temp files are read and written on the user's folder
on the server.

Are you sure the server CPU and disk isn't the bottleneck ?

Changing things randomly without understanding what the problem is may
just add to your problems. Look at some client and server performance
statistcs first.