Ethernet cross over cables

[Guest]

Hi,

I have two computers, downstairs, linked together with an ethernet
crossover cable.

Main PC 1GHz Athon with a wireless 56 MB (802.11g) card
and a D-Link DFE-538TX 10/100 Adapter

The Laptop is a Pentium 200 MHz MMx which has a
Xircom 10/100 Cardbus Ethernet card.

Both system are running Win2k sp4 plus all the updates.

Both system say the connection is 100 mbs when I hover over the icon in
the system tray.

I was recently transferring directories from my main PC to my laptop and
it seemed slow.

A 26 Mbytes folder took 730 seconds, that's 0.036 Mbytes per second

I took my laptop upstairs and plugged it in to the wireless router, the
main PC is connected via a 56 MB wireless link, and the transfer rate
was 0.35 Mbytes per second. So this was my laptop connected via its 100
mbs ethernet card plugged into the router which is now communicating
with the main PC wirelessly.

So I brought the router downstairs and connected the two computer to the
router with standard straight through ethernet cables and the transfer
rate is now 0.5 Mbytes per second. Both computer communication via the
100 mbs ethernet cards.

Is there anything I can do to improve the transfer rate with the
crossover cable?

Does anyone understand why the transfer rate is slower when just the
cross over cable is used?

Thanks

 

[Barry]

Hi,

I have two computers, downstairs, linked together with an ethernet
crossover cable.

Main PC 1GHz Athon with a wireless 56 MB (802.11g) card
and a D-Link DFE-538TX 10/100 Adapter

The Laptop is a Pentium 200 MHz MMx which has a
Xircom 10/100 Cardbus Ethernet card.

Both system are running Win2k sp4 plus all the updates.

Both system say the connection is 100 mbs when I hover over the icon in
the system tray.

I was recently transferring directories from my main PC to my laptop and
it seemed slow.

A 26 Mbytes folder took 730 seconds, that's 0.036 Mbytes per second

I took my laptop upstairs and plugged it in to the wireless router, the
main PC is connected via a 56 MB wireless link, and the transfer rate was
0.35 Mbytes per second. So this was my laptop connected via its 100 mbs
ethernet card plugged into the router which is now communicating with the
main PC wirelessly.

So I brought the router downstairs and connected the two computer to the
router with standard straight through ethernet cables and the transfer
rate is now 0.5 Mbytes per second. Both computer communication via the 100
mbs ethernet cards.

Is there anything I can do to improve the transfer rate with the crossover
cable?

Does anyone understand why the transfer rate is slower when just the cross
over cable is used?

Thanks

crappy cable? Is it a lot longer than the other one? Do you run it near a
lot of flourescant lights / other high voltage things?