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Net Performance in heterogeneous env.
LockedOur MIS department and our end users are complaining of slowness since moving to our new building. Two things changed – we are using VLANs and we started deploying W2K. I am a Unix Admin so I got so tired of it that I began using a Solaris desktop. Believe me, it was slow, but my Solaris desktop has no problems. I’m sick of hearing everyone complain and no one is doing anything about it so I ran some tests. I have a Unix workstation a Windows workstation and a Novell workstation. I used FTP as the test. The network is 100mbps so I’m considering anything above 60mbps as acceptable. The only unacceptable transfer rates I got was using W2K as the FTP client and Unix or Novell as the FTP server. A lot of our apps run on Novell and Unix. I believe this problem goes beyond FTP, but don’t have time to test every case. It just appears that W2K clients are slow in any file transfer (shared folders, FTP, etc.) accept when they talk to W2K servers. We don’t use ADS. I was wondering if anyone else experienced something like this and if there might be a fix in the way of a patch/driver/configuration parameter change/etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you give me an email address I can actually send you the documentedresults of my tests, if nothing else just to keep for your own records.