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HI, I connected my pc to laptop using 10/100 nics both connected to a 10/100 hub

Everythgin is fine, except when i move file from pc to laptop, it travels at about 3-4 mbps, i was hoping atlest 10mbps

any idea? should the pc be directly connected to laptop for full speed?

thank you.

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eh, I get about 7Mb\s (yes, Byte, not bit) average on my network.

Not sure why. Always been like this. WinXP machines. Tweaked out. Cat6 cabling. etc, etc, etc

No biggie I guess...

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Yes, both pcs connect at 100mbps,

the fastest i got is 10 mpbs ~ 1.2MBps

Also my laptop is connected to hub using cat 5 cable

and my pc is connected to hub using cat 5e cable

should i use cat 5e for laptop also or cat6 for both??

thanks

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Cat 5 e is fine. Are you running in full duplex or half duplex. Check on the properties of your card. Also you can improve your speed by reducing the number of collision using a switch, but that means some extra hardware and extra cost. you also have to know that with a 100mb you will never get 100 mb. there are many factors influencing the transfer rate. First there is the resistance in the cable itself, the the emi. are you cable close to a power source, like wrapped around a power strip or going by fluorescent. Also you can put a packet sniffer on your hub and see what's going on over the wire. A lot of pc vendor when making the original configuration of the computer like to install all protocol, because it's cool or something. Well all you need is TCP/IP so check if IPx or NetBeui is installed. Get back to us with an update. I get about 800K on my 100 mbit network using FTP.

Keep us posted

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Sorry got a little messed up with the pcmcia type's :rolleyes:

Pcmcia type II are a lot slower then type III (I think its something to do with the bit's, type II is 16bit, type III is 32bit).

http://www6.tomshardware.com/network/20011...210/nic-29.html

(Only good review i could find, toms :x :x )

Look at the TCP Throughput, you will see type III's are a lot better then type II's.

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