> Someone else mentioned hardware ... I would also > look in that direction. A > bad NIC or port on a switch can be flooding the > network with garbage.
If I look at the "Network Performance" tab on the server, it stays pretty low (below 10%). Would "garbage traffic" be visible on this tab? In any event, I'm leaning towards a configuration issue with this particular server. I have created a network throughput test which just copies a 1 meg file from the server to the local hard disk and back, measuring the time taken and calculating the "megabytes per second" throughput. On a particular client, when I run this test from a directory on server "A", it takes 5 seconds to copy the file FROM the server, 33 seconds to copy it TO the server, and yields an upload throughput of 28 KILOBYTES per second. If I try the same test on server "B" without changing anything else (cabling, or anything), the results are .16 seconds down, .17 seconds up, and up throughput of 6 MEGABYTES per second -- an improvement 240 times! -- Larry
