large file acroos wireless network

Hi
I have 2 xp machines one wired to a Netgear 384 router, the other attached
wirelessly. I have no problems with the wirelessconnection on a day to day
basis.

I have a 3.8 gig video file on the wired pc. I need to transfer it to the
remote pc as that's where my DVD burner is. However the connection seems to
drop at various stages. I've got as much as a third across before it
crashes - the network not being recognised presumably during some form of
renegotiation?.

I understand that connections need to be negotiated every now and then Could
this be the cause. The best I've been able to find is that a "lease" runs
out but that's not for a couple of days. Any idea what the problem is and
how I might get round this?

Cheers

Foz

> remote pc as that's where my DVD burner is. However the connection seems to
> drop at various stages. I've got as much as a third across before it
> crashes - the network not being recognised presumably during some form of
> renegotiation?.

I used to get this a lot a long time ago when I was using some cheap
Netgear AP's. Changed them for Cisco 350's and the problem went away.

My guess is that the AP processor or radio or both overheated and just
gave up.

David.

Oh. However, as soon as the connection breaks I can start to paste the file
again and off it goes transferring quite happily for a few minutes - could
be 5 mins+ before it goes again...


"David Taylor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> remote pc as that's where my DVD burner is. However the connection seems
>> to
>> drop at various stages. I've got as much as a third across before it
>> crashes - the network not being recognised presumably during some form of
>> renegotiation?.
>
> I used to get this a lot a long time ago when I was using some cheap
> Netgear AP's. Changed them for Cisco 350's and the problem went away.
>
> My guess is that the AP processor or radio or both overheated and just
> gave up.
>
> David.

Oh. However, as soon as the connection breaks I can start to paste the file
again and off it goes transferring quite happily for a few minutes - could
be 5 mins+ before it goes again...

"Foz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:42e54b2a$0$13707$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
> I have 2 xp machines one wired to a Netgear 384 router, the other attached
> wirelessly. I have no problems with the wirelessconnection on a day to day
> basis.
>
> I have a 3.8 gig video file on the wired pc. I need to transfer it to the
> remote pc as that's where my DVD burner is. However the connection seems
> to drop at various stages. I've got as much as a third across before it
> crashes - the network not being recognised presumably during some form of
> renegotiation?.
>
> I understand that connections need to be negotiated every now and then
> Could this be the cause. The best I've been able to find is that a "lease"
> runs out but that's not for a couple of days. Any idea what the problem is
> and how I might get round this?
>
> Cheers
>
> Foz
>
>

For a quick cure, disable wireless in lap and connect with cat 5 to the
router. Transfer time will be faster ( 100 vs 54) and should get the job
done.


"Foz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:42e54b2a$0$13707$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
> I have 2 xp machines one wired to a Netgear 384 router, the other attached
> wirelessly. I have no problems with the wirelessconnection on a day to day
> basis.
>
> I have a 3.8 gig video file on the wired pc. I need to transfer it to the
> remote pc as that's where my DVD burner is. However the connection seems
> to drop at various stages. I've got as much as a third across before it
> crashes - the network not being recognised presumably during some form of
> renegotiation?.
>
> I understand that connections need to be negotiated every now and then
> Could this be the cause. The best I've been able to find is that a "lease"
> runs out but that's not for a couple of days. Any idea what the problem is
> and how I might get round this?
>
> Cheers
>
> Foz
>
>

It's not a laptop - It's a pc so not so easy!

"Teddybare" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> For a quick cure, disable wireless in lap and connect with cat 5 to the
> router. Transfer time will be faster ( 100 vs 54) and should get the job
> done.
>
>
> "Foz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:42e54b2a$0$13707$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi
>> I have 2 xp machines one wired to a Netgear 384 router, the other
>> attached wirelessly. I have no problems with the wirelessconnection on a
>> day to day basis.
>>
>> I have a 3.8 gig video file on the wired pc. I need to transfer it to the
>> remote pc as that's where my DVD burner is. However the connection seems
>> to drop at various stages. I've got as much as a third across before it
>> crashes - the network not being recognised presumably during some form of
>> renegotiation?.
>>
>> I understand that connections need to be negotiated every now and then
>> Could this be the cause. The best I've been able to find is that a
>> "lease" runs out but that's not for a couple of days. Any idea what the
>> problem is and how I might get round this?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Foz
>>
>>
>
>

Crossover cable mean anything to you?

yeah, go get one from here, dont go pc world

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"E" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Crossover cable mean anything to you?
>

Yes, I have a crossover cable but not the length of my house!

I may resort to temporarily removing the hard disk and adding it as a spare
in the other pc to transfer "locally". Thought someone might have been able
to say why I'm getting the disconnects.....

"E" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Crossover cable mean anything to you?
>

> Yes, I have a crossover cable but not the length of my house!

It's not hard to make one the length of your house but yes I accept that
it's not the solution that you're looking for.

> I may resort to temporarily removing the hard disk and adding it as a spare
> in the other pc to transfer "locally". Thought someone might have been able

Well you could go a little better and stick it in an external
firewire/usb2 enclosure and just move it between devices.

> to say why I'm getting the disconnects.....

I gave you the only comparison that I had. I don't know why my Netgears
used to disconnect during large transfers either but I also had it
happen when receiving a particular email, don't know why, never looked
into it enough but I just cabled to pick up that one email and then it
worked wirelessly again.

Solution was to change AP's to a different vendor.

David.