At 01:53 PM 4/4/2009, you wrote:
You might want to check that the gigabit switch that you got supports jumbo
frames as that can speed PC-to-PC transfers by a lot (WinXP and other OSes
should just default support
it); BINO
You often have to turn Jumbo Frames on, in the NIC driver in order to
use it. This is particularly true with older boards and NICs. Go to
device manager, your NIC >>> Properties Advanced settings. And you
have to know what Jumbo Frame setting your switch will accommodate.
Also both NICs and the switch must support Jumbo frames in order to
support it. I played around with this a lot when I first got my SMC
GB switch back in 2004, a good one, rack mount that is still
available, and although there has been a lot of hoopla about Jumbo
Frames lately I was never able to realize any significant improvement
in transfer speeds between two boards with Intel GB NICs transferring
large video ISO files.
