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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by cyberhh:
Before you waste money on a "switch" or intelligent hub please give us more information - how large is the file that you are transfering and how long does it take to xfer it? Also a xover cable should be the fastest form of communication between two 100 Mb nodes - shortest cable lengths and eliminates the added speed overhead of the switch routing to the other machine.
If you are able to xfer between 7 and 12 MB / min then your cat5 link is operating correclty. Factors such as other running tasks, avail. memory and disk drive speed can and will affect network preformance, so if you are not hitting the 7-12MB/Min target then please include as much other information as you can with the next post. Thanks.
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The folder that I was transfering was 1gb of .Mp3's and it took almost 5 hours. I could have slaved up the drive faster than that. I think I solved the problem, cause when I did some routine maintainance things worked better. Thanks for the extra input, but I am not buying anything new right now. I have not had time to play so this is not a big issue anymore.