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by elwin9

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Two windows XP pro systems running through a Netgear Hub, there is a third thats not connected. MYOB Premier is being used. When the main PC is sitting at login the second has a fast connection to the database. As soon as the main PC is being used the second PC's connection slows down, plus start up on the second PC is very slow. XP3000+ for the main and XP2800+ for the second. 10/100 onboard for both.
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by nico baggus

Could it be that you have your interfaces set to
100Mbit/s Full Duplex?
A hub will never do that, it's a half duplex only
device, a switch can do 100Mbit/s full duplex.
Leaving the setting to auto might get you full
duplex depending on driver/switch
hardware/software and some chance.
Your best bet might be to set everything to half
duplex.

(When you have a hafl-duplex device talk to a
full duplex talk teh full duplex device will
babble on and the half duplex device will wait
quitely shy away to a corner of your network...)

kind regards,
Nico Baggus

by elwin9

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Sorry I should have being more spicific its a Netgear FS105 5 port 10/100 switch. Also the database works fine on the Main PC either way, its only the network thats slow Main is using it?

by jose mir

I think the problem is related to the fact that Windows XP is not tuned to act as a server, even if the server service exist on it.
Make sure you configure the Main PC for Processor prioritization of "Background Services" and Memory prioritization of "System Cache" ("Advanced" tab in the "Performance Options" dialog box -right click My Computer and choose "Properties").

Hope this help.
Jose.-

by elwin9

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The problem was the shortcuts to the data file which was very large and getting moved around the network.

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