"Antony" <info AT webpc DOT biz> wrote in message
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> We have a 2003 server being used as a standalone web server and have
> recently
> (last 2 weeks) noticed that the transfer speeds have slowed down to sub
> 100kb/s where before we were getting 200kb/s +. When testing the speeds we
> have used a 60MB zip file and tried transferring via HTTP using IIS and
> FTP
> using an FTP server called Serv-U both are showing the slower speeds.
> I have been watching the network utilization on the server whilst these
> transfers are being done and its not getting over 1% (100MB connection).
> Would I be right in thinking that it should go a lot higher? Any ideas on
> where to look on fixing the problem? I have already looked at the event,
> FTP,
> HTTP Err logs and nothing is appearing there.
> From the logs the only changes to the software on the server that have
> occurred since the beginning of February are the MS Updates. Looking
> forward
> to some help. TIA
> Antony
Any modern computer should be able to do >95% on a 100MB LAN connection.
Do you have any firewall or network anti virus software on the server or
test ws? There's a bug in the ms firewall that chokes it on 100mb or
Gigabit ethernet.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842264/en-us
I was only gettin ~15% through put on 100MB ethenet between winxp computers
before I disabled the firewall service. After words I get ~98%
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