Guest Bryan L Posted March 19, 2008 Posted March 19, 2008 I just tried to transfer a 500MB file from a server to my workstation. Since I was already TS'd into my server I mapped a drive on the server to my workstation (since I do this sort of thing fairly often) and started the copy operation to "push" the file down to my worksation. Performance seemed very slow to me -- after chugging away for a couple of minutes, the transfer was still only 1/2 done -- so I decided to try "pulling" the file to my workstation rather than pushing it from the server. The whole transfer took less than 10 seconds. Why should there be such a performance difference in transfer speed? Would the drive mapping have anything to do with it? I used the \\server\share path to pull it from the server to my workstation and not a drive mapping. Both the server and workstation are very new so it's definitely not an underpowered server. HUGE difference in speed. Thoughts? Bryan
Guest Thee Chicago Wolf Posted March 19, 2008 Posted March 19, 2008 Re: Staggering Difference in Network Performance?? >I just tried to transfer a 500MB file from a server to my workstation. >Since I was already TS'd into my server I mapped a drive on the server to my >workstation (since I do this sort of thing fairly often) and started the >copy operation to "push" the file down to my worksation. Performance seemed >very slow to me -- after chugging away for a couple of minutes, the transfer >was still only 1/2 done -- so I decided to try "pulling" the file to my >workstation rather than pushing it from the server. The whole transfer took >less than 10 seconds. > >Why should there be such a performance difference in transfer speed? Would >the drive mapping have anything to do with it? I used the \\server\share >path to pull it from the server to my workstation and not a drive mapping. >Both the server and workstation are very new so it's definitely not an >underpowered server. > >HUGE difference in speed. Thoughts? > >Bryan NIC drivers not up to date on one side? Network throttling on the upstream via router / switch? In my own experience, "down" always seems to transfer faster than "up" does. Is this a SP2 Windows Server 2003? - Thee Chicago Wolf
Guest Brains,None Posted March 25, 2008 Posted March 25, 2008 Re: Staggering Difference in Network Performance?? I have a user whose pc does just that.. tried an old card I had handy, and just popped it into his XP workstation. whammo, problem solved... also as the other poster said, check the drivers too... j. Bryan L wrote: > I just tried to transfer a 500MB file from a server to my workstation. > Since I was already TS'd into my server I mapped a drive on the server to my > workstation (since I do this sort of thing fairly often) and started the > copy operation to "push" the file down to my worksation. Performance seemed > very slow to me -- after chugging away for a couple of minutes, the transfer > was still only 1/2 done -- so I decided to try "pulling" the file to my > workstation rather than pushing it from the server. The whole transfer took > less than 10 seconds. > > Why should there be such a performance difference in transfer speed? Would > the drive mapping have anything to do with it? I used the \\server\share > path to pull it from the server to my workstation and not a drive mapping. > Both the server and workstation are very new so it's definitely not an > underpowered server. > > HUGE difference in speed. Thoughts? > > Bryan > >
Guest Thee Chicago Wolf Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 Re: Staggering Difference in Network Performance?? >I just tried to transfer a 500MB file from a server to my workstation. >Since I was already TS'd into my server I mapped a drive on the server to my >workstation (since I do this sort of thing fairly often) and started the >copy operation to "push" the file down to my worksation. Performance seemed >very slow to me -- after chugging away for a couple of minutes, the transfer >was still only 1/2 done -- so I decided to try "pulling" the file to my >workstation rather than pushing it from the server. The whole transfer took >less than 10 seconds. > >Why should there be such a performance difference in transfer speed? Would >the drive mapping have anything to do with it? I used the \\server\share >path to pull it from the server to my workstation and not a drive mapping. >Both the server and workstation are very new so it's definitely not an >underpowered server. > >HUGE difference in speed. Thoughts? > >Bryan I happened to see this KB article today, take a look: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950216 - Thee Chicago Wolf
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