Well, this has been really bugging me and I was hoping that maybe someone had an answer to why this might be happening. For some reason, I'm getting ridiculously slow network speeds. I was at school trying to transfer files and it was literally crawling. I recently installed 1 gig of Kingston ram. I haven't done anything else besides that. Please, I'm in desperate need of help.
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It might be the connection rather than your machine. RAM really wouldn't make a difference. Run a bandwidth test like this one and report back what you find.
http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html?tag=cnetfd.dir
Brian
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Whoops, thought you were using wireless.
Well, for a wired connection, I'm not exactly sure how to solve it, but sometimes the network is setup odd, and slows down the speeds. My dorm has that issue. I can't directly connect to anybody quickly(like takes several minutes for a response), but once I'm connected speeds start to pick up. -
there are a couple possible issues...
1. if this is internally on a lan, it could be some name resolution issues; not dns, but netbios names(?) i forgot what share level naming convention is... anyways, if there is a problem in how this is setup on the network, your computer has to keep requesting a hostname to resolve to whatever computer your sending files to which makes files transfers unbearably slow... i think the workaround is to modiy your lmhosts file. i could be totally wrong on this one, it's a been a looooong time, but i remember encoutering a similar problem way back when.
2. another is how the lan is setup at the physical layer, i'e. the hub/switch setup. if this is a makeshift lan and you've got a bunch of small hubs linked together, you're going to have a bunch of collisions causing slowdown
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Brian, it isn't my connection. I ran one of those Roadrunnder speed tests...and it would max at at 260 kbits...On my desktop I can get some pretty ridiculous speeds.
I forgot to say this before, but even my normal browsing is affected. I was downloading an antivirus off of a website...and it was...very slow...whereas downloading th same antivirus on my desktop it was done in no time.
drumfu, I'll have to consider that. Still puzzled though. -
Well 260 is pretty damned slow for a broadband connection.
Brian
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It sure is. What a friend recommended is to get PCMCIA card and see if that works correctly. If it does then there's something wrong...if it's the same then it might be something related to what drumfu was talking about.
Slow network speed on ZD8000, help!
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by Flong, Apr 27, 2005.