>>>There are two people on a Win08 server. It is a 100Mb network. All are set to 100Mg Full Duplex. But the best we can achieve is about 300KB (2.5Mb) through-put (sp). I have not been able to discover any erroring on the network. Is there anything esle I can look for to help resolve the speed issue?
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>>I presume you are referring to an application (e.g. VFP) being slow. If that is the case, I would look into Anti-virus software; it often times slows everything.
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>>HTH.
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>Actually, All I am trying to do is copy some CSV files (4GB) to the server.
On a 100Mbit/sec network, maximum theoretical data transfer rate is 100/8, or 12.5 megabytes/sec.
4GB is 4,000MB, so the least possible time your transfer will take is 4,000/12.5 = 320 seconds, about 5 1/2 minutes. In practice you'd be very lucky to see 10 megabytes/sec transfer rate, that would yield 400 seconds, close to 7 minutes. If the 4GB is made up of a lot of small files, and/or there is significant other network traffic, you might find you're getting only half the theoretical data transfer rate, so your 4GB transfer could take more than 10 minutes.
How long are your transfers actually taking?
If you're doing this often, it's probably a good idea to upgrade to gigabit Ethernet. It's inexpensive these days, most current servers and workstations already support it, so in most cases you just have to upgrade switches and check that all cabling is Cat5e or better.
Regards. Al
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