If your on the Universities LAN, then only god can help you I'm affraid.
Things to look for, half/full duplex on your ethernet card.
give us the output from i/f config. before and after the copy.
on XP dunno, I'd say wipe it, ;-), and install windows 2000, but I can't
say that, because XP is microsoft's brand new flag ship operating
system, and I B E L I V E them....;-)
try other clients see if it's a layer 7 problem.
(win 95, win 98, etc etc) see if microsoft have disabled linux
interoperablity again. ;-).
I think you really need to provide more information about your machine.
version numbers, kernel, samba version, an output from your dmesg might
be nice, but you'll have to buy me beer to look at it ;-)...virtual beer
perhaps.
I had a similar problem, and found out it was a high number of error's
being generated by a dodgey 10/mb shared hub.... oh dear...
netstat -s also quite nice, if you know how to read da stats.
so, here's some things to try before you break out the network
sniffer...
sniff..sniff.
Laters.
Lee
'Will fix networks for food'
On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 18:02, Guangyue Liu wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> This might not be that Linux related but it does involve a Linux machine :-)
> Sorry if you are not interested but here it is:
>
> I have a weird Duron 800MHz machine (with K7T turbo Limited Edition mainboard,
> 10Gb harddisk and 256Mb RAM) running Windows XP. I also have a small 100Mbps
> LAN. The server is a AMD Athlon 600MHz and running Samba on Linux.
>
> But every time when i download some stuffs from the server it is rediculously
> slow. I checked Task Manager and its only using 2-5% of the bandwidth.
> Funny thing is that when i upload files to the server it seems to be fine,
> 50%+ bandwidth were used. I used iperf to check the connection and the result
> was ok. I even tried to transfer some files from a different computer to the
> server and the speed was reasonable. I copied some files on the dodgy machine
> locally and its fine too. I checked that the network card had a up to date
> driver... If i remember correctly i used to have a different NIC and had
> the same problem.
>
> Any thoughts please, because i am dying to know why
>
> -guy-
>
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