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    W98 LAN – one way slow connection

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    by jjvtechrep ·

    Hello,
    I have been happily using a 2machines (Celeron 400 and PIII 750) W98SE network at home for some years.

    Recently, data tranfer Celeron 400 -> PIII is very slow.(Copies 2 Mbytes in 1 minute, Word 2000 saves 2Mbytes in 3 minutes !). The other way (PIII -> Celeron 400 )works fine.

    My switch is 100base-Tx, network adapters accordingly. I changed the switch recently, but the problem existed before that.

    I couldn’t figure this one out.

    Thanks for your help.

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    • #2698022

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      by chris910 ·

      In reply to W98 LAN – one way slow connection

      Could it be your virus scanning software?

      Try temporarily disabling your scanning software then trying your file move.

    • #2670385

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      by aquaris ·

      In reply to W98 LAN – one way slow connection

      1- check your wiring for any wear and tear….

      2- try using a different port on the Hub..

      3- get an estimate of ping response…either way..

      (ping each other and see…whats the response differential if any)

      4- is your Celeron….gone generally slow…with other programs too…

      then may be it needs….say more Ram / defragmentation…etc..etc….

      hope it helps.

      • #2670210

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        by jjvtechrep ·

        In reply to Reply To: W98 LAN – one way slow connection

        Many thanks for all these tips … which I had tried.

        Ping is 1ms or “less than 10ms” either way, Celeron saves fine on local drives… mystery remains.

    • #2696885

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      by wharb ·

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      For the Celeron 400:
      Try “kicking” out your current network protocol stack by removing all of the protocols in your Network NeighborHood properties and removing the Microsoft Client for Networks network client. (must restart system after these steps)

      Then re-install Microsoft Client for Networks client and make sure that it defaults to loading the TCP/IP protocol first. Then reconfigure, if needed, to the original settings that you had for that protocol. (Note. if are also using the NETBEUI protocol here make sure that is has the same level of priority in the order of install as the order of install in the PIII 750 PC.)

      This should clear up any stack problems that may have developed in the past and restore your network transfer rate performance to what it used to be.

      The “PC” SOFTWARE DOCTOR

      • #2696854

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        by jjvtechrep ·

        In reply to Reply To: W98 LAN – one way slow connection

        TCP/IP is the only kind of protocol in my network.
        Anyway I cleared it on Celeron, rebooted, reinstalled – no better.
        I also reinstalled my network adapter driver and the whole network settings. Same result.
        Thanks anyway for your extra time…

    • #2696782

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      by chris910 ·

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      The next thing to look at is the duplex settings on both computers and the switch.
      –I am assuming that your switch is relativly new and does not have manual duplex settings.
      –I am assuming that the network card in both computers are 100Mb. There are a few switches out there that have issues with mixing 10 Mb and 100Mb.
      –Now check the speed/duplex settings on both cards and set them both to auto. (Here is how Right click Networkneiborhood–>properties–> highlight your network card in the window and select properties–>now this part is a little different for different network cards. select media type or duplex and speed and set them for auto.) (this should allow the network cards to correctly negotiate a speed and duplex setting.) Some switches have issues with duplex if the network card is hard coded for a speed and duplex.
      –Power down both computers and power cycle your switch
      –restart both computers and test your transfers again

    • #2696759

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      by colin.r.bates ·

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      Have you tried deleting the winsock and winsock2 entries in the registry, I had a similar problem and found this worked. The winsocks dont get removed when removing tcp/ip protocols. I used add/remove windows progs to remove all communications and then went to the registry and deleted the winsocks. Then re-install and re-boot.

    • #3381215

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      by duster52 ·

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      Ok…everyone is suggesting you look at the network…have you looked at the PIII machine (actually look at both machines). Specifically, make sure that it is really using all of the memory, make sure it is not running out of hard drive space, make sure the swap file hasn’t been changed.

      Also make sure nothing else is running in the background. Make both machines as ‘clean’ as possible, then try the file transfer.

      • #3381751

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        by jjvtechrep ·

        In reply to Reply To: W98 LAN – one way slow connection

        The PIII indeed was the source of this problem, but I don’t know in what way.
        In fact I restored the system and programs partitions on this machine, using images dating back to late July (with some inconveniences). The network works fine since then.
        Many thanks to you all !

    • #3381748

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      by jjvtechrep ·

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