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I got a little network set up at home.... my desktop is running on a 100 mbps card, as is my laptop. but transfer between the two machines is limited to about 1 MBps... it would help to mention, theyre connected through a netgear mr814 dsl router (with 4port switch).
what gives, i thought it'd be faster, just transferring files locally, not going through dsl modem at all...
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What's the speed of the 2 computers? And the speed of the 2 Hard Drives? How much stuff is running on each?
It's nice that they sell cards that can transfer 100MB/s, but you really can't get too much faster than 1.5-2Mb/s no matter what you do, as your computer can only DL, translate, and write the stuff to the hard drive so fast through the relatively small bandwith within the motherboard and slow speed of IDE hard drives (which I'm going to presume that you have)
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oh [censored] man I can't stand my crapy ass MR814 Netgear routers. The damn thigns claim to have port forwarding. BULLCHIT
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Originally posted by sigma:
What's the speed of the 2 computers? And the speed of the 2 Hard Drives? How much stuff is running on each?
It's nice that they sell cards that can transfer 100MB/s, but you really can't get too much faster than 1.5-2Mb/s no matter what you do, as your computer can only DL, translate, and write the stuff to the hard drive so fast through the relatively small bandwith within the motherboard and slow speed of IDE hard drives (which I'm going to presume that you have)
Make sure you differentiate between megabit per second(Mb/s) and megabyte per second(MB/s). The 100 mb/s card is entirely possible. I have one in my computer. Now 100 MB/s is a ways off in the future. And I can get upwards of 4 or 5 MB/s on the network at school going from my computer to my roommate's computer through the network. As to the question, I have no idea why that is happening. Are you using cat 5 cable?
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I hate Netgear myself, have had a lot of problems with the brand. But still, are your cables Cat 5? Bad cables will knock it right down. Maybe you are only connecting at 10mb. Does your Netgear box have lights to tell you if you are connecting at 10 or 100?
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Originally posted by Mines Mystique:
Originally posted by sigma:
What's the speed of the 2 computers? And the speed of the 2 Hard Drives? How much stuff is running on each?
It's nice that they sell cards that can transfer 100MB/s, but you really can't get too much faster than 1.5-2Mb/s no matter what you do, as your computer can only DL, translate, and write the stuff to the hard drive so fast through the relatively small bandwith within the motherboard and slow speed of IDE hard drives (which I'm going to presume that you have)
Make sure you differentiate between megabit per second(Mb/s) and megabyte per second(MB/s). The 100 mb/s card is entirely possible. I have one in my computer. Now 100 MB/s is a ways off in the future. And I can get upwards of 4 or 5 MB/s on the network at school going from my computer to my roommate's computer through the network. As to the question, I have no idea why that is happening. Are you using cat 5 cable?
Nope 100MB/sec is here today. There is gigabit ethernet, even in copper form. I've seen Linksys consumer switches with a single gigabit port. I'm sure consumer switches with more ports will be here soon.
Of course can the PC architecture keep up with that?
I know Sun's do, and we have both copper and fibre PCI gigabit ethernet cards for our SPARC based servers.
BTW, I know my laptop is really slow. So I really don't know how fast PCMCIA hardware will transfer data. Wasn't one of the machines in the problem a laptop? Is the NIC a PCMCIA NIC or built in?
Do the drivers for your NICs allow you to setup the ports. Perhaps autonegotiation isn't working quite right and you are not getting 100Mb/Full Duplex.
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you hit the nail with the slow hard drives. slow ass udma33 on the desktop. with all your comments i guess my 1-1.5 MBps speed aint too bad now is it... yup, CAT-5 cable here, should be good quality too, i didnt cheap out when it came to it... no 10/100 indicator lights on the router... i guess im happy with the router, i just purchased it recently. i love wireless internet.. the only problem i have right now (and this might be verizon's fault, im not sure), is that every couple of days the router loses its ip address supplied over ppoe. trying to reconnect using the router's firmware doesnt help... the only thing that helps is restarting the modem and the router. thx for prompt responses btw guys 
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it doesnt. The only thing the MR814 netgear router is good for is to share dsl, files and thats it. If you want to host a server yorus screwed in that area. So now I have this netgear MR814 router that is usless to me and I cant return it due to my grandmother trashing the bod. So anyone want to by a fairly easy to setup router? lol
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are both of your nic cards set to full duplex? try a linksys router, they are cheap anyways. also make sure u have good nic cards, they do make a difference on network speed.
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Originally posted by lsneo:
are both of your nic cards set to full duplex? try a linksys router, they are cheap anyways. also make sure u have good nic cards, they do make a difference on network speed.
You've got the right answer. Most likely, your two NICs are set at two different duplexes.
Hard drive speed isn't really your bottleneck. UDMA/33 is 33 MB/s burst rate (that's megaBYTE ). You're network (if the duplex settings are correct, will be 100 Mb/s ( that's megaBIT ), or about ~12 MB/s (and that's with a perfect CAT5 cable, clean heads, etc., etc. )
So.. check your NIC settings and maybe your cabling ( if you built them yourself... though, I have seen bad pre-built patch cables out of the box....
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