>I just set up a Windows 2003 Standard Server on a 10Mbps 10base2 LAN. I had configured the network card to work in half-duplex mode.
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>If I pinged a host from the Windows 2003, the latency was over 10ms. When I used one WinXP in the network to ping the Windows 2003 server, the latency was over 100ms. Browing shares on the host was slow as well.
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>If I booted the same machine with Knoppix, pinging the same host would need only 0.5ms.
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>What's slowing downing the Windows 2003 networking by over 10 times?
One thing to check:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;291382
Regards. Al
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