Perfromance issues...

All,

I am not sure where to turn I have read website and postings to no end and I
cannot figure out what is going on with my home network. My network is
small, I have a linksys wrt54g router and 4 devices attched at any
particular time. The devices I have are as follows, machine a running
fedora core 5 (upgraded from fc4), machine b running xp home, machine c
running xp pro and machine d is a lacie 300GB network storage running a
linux kernel. Now when I want to transfer a file from any machie to any
other machine I cannot get better than 4 MB/sec. I have used ftp and samba
to try different file xfre methods. So far samba has had the best
performance. There is nothing else running on the network at the time of my
test so there is no contention for anything. Tonight I am going to get a
crossover cable and see if that makes a difference but can anyone suggest
anything I can look at? According to the router all cards are connected at
100mb with full duplex. I have tried new cables, used a different swtich
etc without any luck in getting this to run more efficiently.

With an idle network I would expect to get at least 8MB/sec on a 100mb
network.

Thanks,
Scott.

"none" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Now when I want to
> transfer a file from any machie to any other machine I cannot get
> better than 4 MB/sec. I have used ftp and samba to try different
> file xfre methods. So far samba has had the best performance. There
> is nothing else running on the network at the time of my test so
> there is no contention for anything. Tonight I am going to get a
> crossover cable and see if that makes a difference but can anyone
> suggest anything I can look at?

Be sure you are using a minimum of cat5e cabling?

none wrote:
> I am not sure where to turn I have read website and postings to no end and I
> cannot figure out what is going on with my home network. My network is
> small, I have a linksys wrt54g router and 4 devices attched at any
> particular time. ... According to the router all cards are connected at
> 100mb with full duplex. I have tried new cables, used a different swtich
> etc without any luck in getting this to run more efficiently.
>
> With an idle network I would expect to get at least 8MB/sec on a 100mb
> network.

Assuming you're not connecting through the wireless part of the WRT54G,
which only has a 54Mbps max bandwidth, try running a packet sniffer to
see if you've got anything else going on, like something being extra
chatty or lots of ICMP error packets or something.