On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 10:44, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > lorne wrote: > > >On Monday 01 September 2003 08:10 pm, Michael Viron wrote: > > > > > >>Seems like this is related to the stuff discussed in > >>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321169 and possibly > >>in http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321098 . > >> > >>You may also want to try running regedit to do the following: > >> > >>go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current > >>Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace" in the registry > >> > >>remove {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} . > >> > >> > >> > >First I apologize for not reporting what I found yesterday. I had already > >tried the top two things to no avail yesterday. I tried removing the above > >key and it made no difference at all. As we speak I'm transferring 285MB of > >data from the Linux box to the XP box and it has been 8 minutes so far and my > >guess is that it will take another 9 - 10 minutes. If I do it from my linux > >server and copy it to the xp box, it will blast over in about 2 minutes or > >less!! > > > > This illustrates my point perfectly. When you initiated the transfer on > the Linux box it took around two minutes to do the transfer, and you > called it fast (blast). I repeated that behavior in my own setup. I > got the same results when initiating the transfer on my Mandrake box > using Konqueror and command line (cp). I call it slow because when I > initiate the transfer on the Win2000 box, using Windows Explorer, I get > the same transfer done in under a minute. Why the huge difference in speed? > > A two minute transfer for a file that size may be fast compared to a > totally broken setup, but it is still half as fast as it should be. The > question is: what needs to be done to have file transfers initiated in > Linux get the same transfer speed experienced when they are initiated by > Windows? > > The same thing can be said for transfers between Linux and Linux. It > experiences the same crippled transfer speed. The common thread being > the transfer is initiated on a Linux box. >
Remember though, this particular network is on a HUB, i.e. half-duplex. If there is any other sort of traffic what-so-ever it's going to be noticeably slower (DNS lookups, Net-BT broadcasts, etc). -- Brian Keefer
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