Brian wrote:
> 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).
>
Brings up a good point. Specifically, how many hubs are we talking
about? Are there more than 2 hubs between the mdk and XP box? If it's a 1
hub small network, DNS and NETBIOS braodcasts shouldn't be that much of an
issue.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "chort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`
> 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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