Slow Transfer Rate?

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I just connected a Win98se system to my Win2000 system using a
crossover cable. Both ethernet cards lights indicate that they are
set at 100 Mb. However, the System Monitor on the Win98 system
indicates the transfer is about 1 MByte/sec. Shouldn't I see
about 10MByte/sec?

If so, where should I look for the reason for the slow transfer?

Thanks...
 
Any communication or transfer between computers will involve significant
overhead. As a result, you will never get sustained 100 megabits/sec
throughput, and 10 megabytes/sec is an unrealistic expectation.
Nevertheless, you should be able to achieve transfer rates above 1
megabyte/sec. However, in part this depends on what you are transfering,
how the connection is initiated/established, and even the monitoring
software you use.

A common contributor to poor performance when a Win2k machine connects to a
Win9x machine is Win2k's method of checking for scheduled tasks on remote
machines when it initiates a connection - apparently, Win9x does not provide
the expected response. You can remedy this as follows:

On the Win2k machine, click Start/Run regedit ENTER

Navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Remote
Computer\NameSpace\

Delete this key:

{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
 
Doug Sherman said:
Any communication or transfer between computers will involve significant
overhead. As a result, you will never get sustained 100 megabits/sec
throughput, and 10 megabytes/sec is an unrealistic expectation.
Nevertheless, you should be able to achieve transfer rates above 1
megabyte/sec. However, in part this depends on what you are transfering,
how the connection is initiated/established, and even the monitoring
software you use.
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I was transferring large tif & zip files (100MByte) when I checked
the "System Monitor" (a Win98 system utility). The connection was
over via a workgroup like \\laptopwin98\driveC\blah

Not sure how to describe the connection initiation...
I have Network properties with
Client to Microsoft Networks
File and Printer sharing for Microsoft Networks
TCP/IP
A common contributor to poor performance when a Win2k machine connects to a
Win9x machine is Win2k's method of checking for scheduled tasks on remote
machines when it initiates a connection - apparently, Win9x does not provide
the expected response. You can remedy this as follows:
Click to expand...

Though I don't have any "Scheduled Tasks" on either system, I did
remove the key without any change in transfer speeds...

Any other thoughts?
 
Does anyone have any other ideas?
I was transferring large tif & zip files (100MByte) when I checked
the "System Monitor" (a Win98 system utility). The connection was
over via a workgroup like \\laptopwin98\driveC\blah

Not sure how to describe the connection initiation...
I have Network properties with
Client to Microsoft Networks
File and Printer sharing for Microsoft Networks
TCP/IP


Though I don't have any "Scheduled Tasks" on either system, I did
remove the key without any change in transfer speeds...

Any other thoughts?
Click to expand...
 
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