Network Speeds are massively SLOW!

Stats:

Cable modem
Wireless G router
16 port 10/100 switch
3- computers
- one wirless
- two connected with cat5 to switch



I have the switch connected to the router when in turn the switch feeds two computers using cat5 for connection. My wireless computer is using well wireless :\ (ook, didnt know how to word that one.) But anyhow my lan speeds of transfering files is no more then 1.70mB/sec and all computers are all in the same area of the room. I have seen college campus computers across campus sending/recieving files way faster in the 8mB/sec range. any ideas?


If there is more info you need let me know.

 

Set each of your NICs to 100Mbps full duplex. They are probably set to Auto now.

Things should run faster for you. If they quit connecting altogether you probably have either a bad piece of patch cable or a bad switch port.

 

Thanks, I have already done that option forcing all nics to 100 full duplex mode. I have done away with the wireless as well to do some testing but i dont think its my hardware or cables. I have forced all nics to 100 full duplex but speeds still seems slow. Any other suggestions would be great.

 

Network Speeds

You may want to make sure that your 10/100 Switch is actually a switch or a hub. It only needs a single NIC that is 10BaseT on a hub to make all your PCs and stations work as a 10BaseT network. This includes your print servers, other hubs, other switches, routers, any NIC that runs 10BaseT on the network.

Check to see if the switch can be configured manually to Full-Duplex. Some units that are configured to full-duplex require both ends to be configured manually to full-duplex. If you are not sure, then you should keep it configured as "auto."

From your calculations of 1.x mB/s, it looks like one side of your transfer is running at 10BaseT. Make sure the NICs aren't failing with 100BaseT configurations. It could be a faulty NIC.

Try some of those out and see if that would help.