Slow network connection between WinXP and OSX 10.3

B

Bech100

Registered
Hi,

All the computers in our building are networked and can see each and share files no problem.

All our PC's run WinXP, we have an old Mac running OS 9 and two brand new Dual G5's running OSX 10.3.

As i said, all the computers can see each other and their shared files.

When copying files between any WinXP machine and the Mac running OS 9, the transfer rate averages roughly 1.5mb per second.

But...

When transferring between WinXP and OSX 10.3, the transfer rate is less than 400k per second.

This just aint fast enough as we are a design and advertising agency and often have to transfer images of over 100mb.

My knowledge of OSX is limited, but i have tried most what i can think of. Just wondering if you have any thoughts on what the problem may be!?

Thanks

Mark
 
How is the transfer between your OS 9 and 10.3? Is it possible you have packet-losses? And how is your 10.3 mac connected to the network? Wireless?
I have no problems transfering files from my WinXP box to my tibook. Of course using airport is slowing down a lot compared to the 100mbit lan.

And welcome to the forum :)
 
The transfer between OS9 and OSX is as should be.

The network is a normal cable network thoughout.

Packet-losses? How would i know, and why only between those 2 operating systems.

Thanks

Mark
 
Start a bunch of pings:
in the terminal type 'ping win.dows.box.ip'
But if things work fine between the OS9 and OSX macs there shouldn't be any losses. I thought maybe it's due to a bad cable..
Hmmmm, do you have a slow transfer in both directions? When you download a file on your WinXP box from the OSX mac, is it slow vice versa?
Maybe you should repair permissions on your OSX mac and try again..
 
Yeah, it is the same both ways mate.

Tried Ping, no packets lost.

Cabling should be fine. The OSX machines replaced some OS9 machines, so the cabling is the same as when the whole network was working flawlessley.

Mark
 
did you try repairing permissions?
Also try this: setup a new user account and test the speed of your filetransfer on that account.
 
Not yet buddy,bit busy at the moment, Just wanted to throw this into the open arena so when i do get a moment, i will have something to try.

Got a clients website to finish by the end of the week - DEADLINES!!! Argh!

I'll let you know tho.

Thanks

Mark
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top