• Help with LAN speeds
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I recently purchased a pci gigabit adapter, and popped it into my NAS server. Now let me say, 50MB/s over the network is just astonishing compared to the previous 10-12MB over 100Mbps. The NAS server is as follows: Athlon 3200+ @ 2.2GHz (not 64 bit) 1.5GB ddr 400 (one 1gb and one 512mb) 3 80GB, 1 40GB, and 1 160GB hard drives All drives use IDE Currently running 7 Ultimate (only licensed OS I have atm) The "problem" (don't really know if it's normal or not) is transfers will stand a good 80-90MB/s for 5-6 seconds, and then drop down to 50MB/s, sometimes lower. With task manager up, I'll see the memory usage steadily go up and then flush out, and at this time is when the transfers get slower. Also, with the networking tab open, utilization fluctuates rapidly. From 60% down to 20% and up to 30% and then to 50% and then down some more etc. etc. It's steady when starting out, at 60-70%. Can anyone shed some light? I'd apreciate it :smile: [editline]07:48PM[/editline] Also forgot, the 160GB drive is a western digital blue, and can sustain 80-90MB/s transfers. [editline]07:52PM[/editline] Agh, also tried just a direct connection between computers w/ a cat6 cable. Same results. Normally everything is running through an 8 port gigabit switch.
whats your drive configuration? if your trying RAID maybe your card / software cant keep up.
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