news:10D607D7-5DDB-4ED5-9859-FC4DB9C03933@microsoft.com:

> I've got two pc's both support gigabyte lan. Use one as my main pc
> and one to backup to etc. The lan speed is nothing like i was
> hoping. It works stable at around 5% of it's full capacity... I'm
> not sure what the problem is. Both are setup for giga speeds, the
> router supports giga speeds and the switch also supports giga
> speeds. I've tried different configurations and it's the same with
> all of them. Are there any known problems? What could be causing
> this?
>
> Router: dlink dir 655
> Switch: netgear gs108t
> windows xp
>
> Motherboards
> dell xps 400
> foxconn 945g7md-8ekrs2h
>
>

"John Wunderlich" wrote:

> =?Utf-8?B?azAxMDM3MDc=?= <k01***@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
> news:10D607D7-5DDB-4ED5-9859-FC4DB9C03933@microsoft.com:
>
> > I've got two pc's both support gigabyte lan. Use one as my main pc
> > and one to backup to etc. The lan speed is nothing like i was
> > hoping. It works stable at around 5% of it's full capacity... I'm
> > not sure what the problem is. Both are setup for giga speeds, the
> > router supports giga speeds and the switch also supports giga
> > speeds. I've tried different configurations and it's the same with
> > all of them. Are there any known problems? What could be causing
> > this?
> >
> > Router: dlink dir 655
> > Switch: netgear gs108t
> > windows xp
> >
> > Motherboards
> > dell xps 400
> > foxconn 945g7md-8ekrs2h
> >
> >
>
> I looked up the Netgear GS108T and found that it is a GigaBIT switch
> and not a GigaBYTE switch, so you have to decrease your expectations by
> a factor of 10 or so right there.  :-)
>
> Do you have the correct cables?  100-Base-T only requires only two
> pairs (4 wires) in the cable. Many [cheap] cables have been made with
> only 2 pair to save money when only 100-Base-T was used.  Gigabit
> requires all 4 pairs of wires.  If you use the wrong cable, your speed
> will automatically drop back to 100-Base-T.  Accept nothing less that a
> Cat 6 cable for Gigabit Ethernet.  If you terminate your own wires, pay
> particular attention that the correct color/stripe wire is in the
> correct pin. Mis-pairing wires is disasterous and hard to find. 
>
> Open your Network Connections Control Panel and double-click on your
> network and see if it has connected at the correct speed.
>
> Assuming both computers are connecting at 1000-Base-T speeds, how are
> you transferring files?  Microsoft Networking is quite a bit slower
> than FTP, for example, and with Microsoft Networking speed is different
> if you are pushing the data vs pulling the data.
>
> I once connected two 1000-Base-T computers together with only a Cat 6
> cross-cable and using Microsoft Networking I was able to get a payload
> peak of about 20-25 MBytes/Sec when transferring large-size files. 
> I've always used that number as a yardstick since.  If you're
> transferring a lot of small files, you'll probably find that the time
> it takes the computers to create the file in the directory structure on
> the destination computer is much more than the time to transfer the
> data and slows down the transfer significantly.  If you have a lot of
> small files, zip them all into a big .zip file and transfer that to
> increase efficiency.
>
> HTH,
>   John
>