Hi
I run two computers. One (my "server") connects onto our varsity network with a 100MBps connection. My main PC then connects to my server via a Gigabit LAN setup. It was all workign perfectly, got full speeds etc. Then yesterday I took both PCs out and switch out my 1TB in my server for a 2TB, and now that I've put everything back again, I can't get Gigabit LAN speeds.
The network registers as Gigabit, if I check the network stats, it shows the graph up to 1000MBps, but when I actually copy files I never get mroe than 5MBps.
I battle to see how this could have been affected by my HDD switch, but if anyone has any advice, or ideas please let me know.
Thanks
15 years ago
Tue Sep 28 2010, 09:26am
How do you connect to your server from your PC?
Here at the office we had a similar problem at one point. If I connected my PC to another PC using UNC ( Start | Run | \\remote-pc-name ) then I'd get very bad copy speeds. But connecting to the same PC using it's IP address ( Start | Run | \\ip-address ) produced 'normal' copy speeds. We never figured out why it happened, and eventually the problem disappeared for no discernible reason.
Google might hold the answer though, especially if you find that the speeds are normal using the IP address method.
Give it a try and report back? :)
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I really hate computers.
Checked speeds again now, and managed a 30MBps+ copy, so it seems as though it's sorted itself out.
Thanks for the reply though Morgue.
Ah, resolved itself like ours did.
Might just be Windows Networking that needs to 'learn' the adjusted network configuration. Even if it hasn't changed, Windows can get confused sometimes :)
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