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#1 2005-02-14 9:57 am
PC/Mac network is painfully slow
I have been running my PC and Powerbook off of a router and have little problem connecting the two, but I find that transfering files is ridiculously slow, like a gb every 200 hours or so. The router is pretty recent and I know I've had fast file transfers on it before. I'm sorta new to networks, so I'm not sure what the problem is. Any suggestions?
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#2 2005-02-15 12:30 am
- djdawson
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- From: Minnesota, USA
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Re: PC/Mac network is painfully slow
It could be a few things, including a bad or loose cable, bad port(s) on the router, or, most likely, a speed and/or duplex mismatch between the router and either or both of the computers. Check all the cables and reboot everything and see if that helps. Otherwise, you could also configure a static address in each computer (you can use the one's they were assigned by the router via DHCP if you want) and connect the PC and your Mac directly to each other with an ethernet patch cable and eliminate the router completely. Since all the recent Powerbooks have ethernet ports that do "auto-uplink", you shouldn't need a crossover cable - your Powerbook should automatically detect the type of cable and adjust appropriately.
Give some of these things a try and let us know how things go.
Good luck!
Dana
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