| Art Alexion on 7 Dec 2005 15:54:41 -0000 |
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Yes, and the router is almost as old as the 486 (circa 1994). Henry Umansky wrote: > It sounds like a duplex mismatch. Your old machine is probably 10Mbps > half duplex and the other machines are 100Mbps full duplex. If you > don't mind messing with your network temporarily, make everything > 10Mbps half duplex, then when the transfer is complete, switch > everything back to auto-detect. Otherwise just wait till its done > downloading. Also, I'm assuming that all the machines are on one router. > > Henry Umansky > henry@humansky.com > http://www.humansky.com > > > > Art Alexion wrote: > >>> From my Linux machine, I tried copying files from an old win95 machine >> >> to a win2k machine over Samba. I noticed that the reported transfer >> rate was slower than my DSL download rate. >> >> Opinions? >> >> * Is it just a matter of this being from one machine to another >> *via* a third machine? >> * Does the SMB layer have anything to do with it? >> * Or a slow hard drive on the 486/w95 machine? >> * Does it have anything to do with the fact that it is old 10 mb >> Ethernet instead of 100 mb? >> * If it is the Ethernet limitation, is it also slowing down my DSL? >> * Suggestions? >> -- _______________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment -- signature.asc -- is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html Key for signed PDFs available at http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c The validation string is TTJY-ZILJ-BJJG. ________________________________________ Attachment:
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