100BaseT Networking performance in XP Pro

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I have 10/100baseT NICs & router, Cat5e cabling, and
verified connections, yet I am still limited to 10Mbps
performance. What steps do I take to up my network
throughput to 100Mbps levels?
 
R said:
I have 10/100baseT NICs & router, Cat5e cabling, and
verified connections, yet I am still limited to 10Mbps
performance. What steps do I take to up my network
throughput to 100Mbps levels?
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How are you measuring this?
 
Move up to Gigabit ethernet!<g>

Realistically, best you're likely to see in sustained thruput is perhaps
30Mbit/sec.

PC Magazine has a tool, NetPerSec, that gives intanteous, peak and average
thruput measurements, both up and downstream.

Val
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I have 10/100baseT NICs & router, Cat5e cabling, and
verified connections, yet I am still limited to 10Mbps
performance. What steps do I take to up my network
throughput to 100Mbps levels?
 
VManes said:
Move up to Gigabit ethernet!<g>

Realistically, best you're likely to see in sustained thruput is perhaps
30Mbit/sec.

PC Magazine has a tool, NetPerSec, that gives intanteous, peak and average
thruput measurements, both up and downstream.
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Val,

I cannot confirm this. When your machines are working well and
you measure correctly, you should see throughputs beyond 10
Mbyte/s.

Not all workstations achieve this, but if a server doesn't, then
there is something severely wrong.

Hans-Georg
 
VManes said:
Realistically, best you're likely to see in sustained thruput is perhaps
30Mbit/sec.
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Val,

I cannot confirm this. When your machines are working well and
you measure correctly, you should see throughputs beyond 10
Mbyte/s.

Not all workstations achieve this, but if a server doesn't, then
there is something severely wrong.

Hans-Georg

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Hans-Georg
You're right, I must of had a brain fart going when I wrote that. I just
measured about 70Mbit/sec going between my two XP machines on 100BaseT
system.

Now Wireless will see a bigger drop from the "rated" speed - more overhead
in the process. Plain 802.11b gave me about 3Mbit/sec best work (with WEP
enabled) Moved up to D-Link's enhanced version (rated at 22 Mbit/sec) and
can get upwards of 8.

Like Tom Cruise said in "Top Gun" - "I feel the NEED for SPEED"

When can I put a gigabit network in the house? When She Who Must Be Obeyed
lets me.

Val
 
VManes said:
I just
measured about 70Mbit/sec going between my two XP machines on 100BaseT
system.
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Val,

even that is not much, but perhaps you measured the speed of the
slowest hard disk involved, rather than the speed of the
network.

Or else you use a cheap Ethernet adapter that uses the processor
unduly and is slower than it should be. Check the processor load
while measuring Ethernet throughput.

Hans-Georg
 
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