Hello Geoff, On 4 Dec 2001 at 14:21:01 you wrote (at least in part):
GL> Is this level of performance normal? I don't know if 'normal' is the word I'd use but it is quite easy to understand. 10-Base-T is most often half duplex and at _maximum_ 10 MBit/second. It is in fact not one of the fastest connections and the mapped network drive functionality from windows produces some overhead too. So you'll not be able to have more than 500-700 KBit/second throughput. GL> Is there anything I can do to speed things up? Speed up the network :-) If your computers are connected via a HUB and this are the only two that are connected to this HUB you could try a 'cross connect cable' this should speed up things a little bit as it enables full duplex. The next thing would be faster NICs, 100MBit NICs are really cheap and you'll notice the difference :-) Nevertheless you'll all in all stumble over the SMB protocol which ain't developed as very scalable. So the best solution would be having a local message base and copy it to the NT machine with e.g. the windows scheduler once a day. This keeps you at maximum speed and reduces the loss of data to an acceptable value. -- Best Regards Peter Palmreuther mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Bat! v1.54 Beta/14 on Windows NT 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2) A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for. -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
