slow network file copy

Hi

I'm copying a file between 2 PCs on a LAN that are both connecting at 100MB
Full Duplex and it's stunningly slow.

One PC is using XP SP1 and it's copying a file to a PC using XP SP2.

I've tried connecting through 2 different switches and a cross over cable
and the speed is still horribly slow.

My network utilization generally is between 0.11% and 0.04% - Something has
to be throttling my connecting but I can't figure out what it is. Any ideas
what to check? Is there some setting, registry value, etc that I can change
to speed this up?

I want my line saturated!

Thanks

"Bubs" wrote in message ...
Hi

I'm copying a file between 2 PCs on a LAN that are both connecting at 100MB
Full Duplex and it's stunningly slow.

One PC is using XP SP1 and it's copying a file to a PC using XP SP2.

I've tried connecting through 2 different switches and a cross over cable
and the speed is still horribly slow.

My network utilization generally is between 0.11% and 0.04% - Something has
to be throttling my connecting but I can't figure out what it is. Any ideas
what to check? Is there some setting, registry value, etc that I can change
to speed this up?

I want my line saturated!

Thanks


I've noticed the same thing, but can't seem to find much information.
I first noticed a very slow response in network shares on my linux
fileserver, and thought it was something that I had tweaked there. I
finally got fed up, and I have since reinstalled XP along with SP1 and
SP2. Now I've noticed that it's mostly downlink speeds to any other
system. Pushing files to another system, be it XP-SP2 or even linux is
fast, but if any SP2 systems in my house try to pull a file, it seems
to take 3x as long.