USB to ethernet is slow.how fix?

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When I send data over my home LAN ethernet to a hard drive running on a USB
2.0 its very slow data transfer. This is PC to PC over 100baseT wired home
LAN to do disk backups. The slowness occurs in the translation from
10baseT100 to the USB 2.0 and the CPU is 100% utilized.

Are there cards that offload the CPU processing needed to do this
translation?

I have a PCI combo card (w/firewire), brand new installed.

The following clues narrow the problem down to the USB to ethernet
conversion as the problem.:

PC to PC over ethernet from installed HD to installed HD is very fast.
PC from its own C: drive to the USB 2.0 drive is very fast.
but when do PC to PC over ethernet to save data on theh USB 2.0 drive its
very very slow...like 5x slower then drive C: to USB 2.0.

Any thoughts?
 
Have you attempted to recognize your USB drive as a networked-drive? I can
only think that the PC that has the USB drive connected to it would serve as
a bottleneck, as if the PC is recieving the data from PC1 and storing it,
then moving it to the USB Drive. This could be solved by recognizing the
USB drive as a mapped network drive.

-RS
 
that a good thought. I did have it configured like that and it didnt seem
to make any difference. but good thinking.
 
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