hey, it's me again with a nother network problem. I got my network all setup, 1 server, 6 clients, and in the beginning everything was really good. But since today everything is just slow. It takes like 5 minutes till the contents of my mapped network drive on the server get displayed, and datatransfer is very slow to.

someone knows why tbe network would slow down that much, or how I can tweak it?? thx

To start with, you can disable the scheduled tasks on networks to speed up things a bit. Browse to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace\ and delete the key:

{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

And, in your NIC Properties (in Device Mananger only) change the network speed from Auto Detect to 100Mpbs TX Full Duplex. Do this on 2 machines to test.

I have backups scheduled, will this be affected?

This happened at my dad's office, but only on his computer...It had nothing to do with the machine, but with the network cable he was using...Make sure you cables aren't damaged!

it's the same on all the pcs, so I dont think its the cable

Have you checked the router? How old is the router? New? Old?

Wait, you might want to scan your server for viruses! First unplug the server, and leave the other PCs connected and see if there is a change in speed...Or try pinging each individual client...

It's a brand new linksys router. I dont think/hope the pcs are infected with any kind of virus, I have norton antivirus corp. server running on the server, fully updated, and norton antivirus corp. clients on each workstation. Could it be that that slows it down? The AV clients are managed by the server

I would check all computers if one's not running some network/internet activity thats overloading your router...Also, upgrade all drivers for lan cards and upgrade firmware for router (if you have some decent knowledge of that sort, i take no responsibility)

Hope that helps any..

I have backups scheduled, will this be affected?

Your backups wont occur if scheduling is disabled, so you will have to do them manually

I would check all computers if one's not running some network/internet activity thats overloading your router...Also, upgrade all drivers for lan cards and upgrade firmware for router (if you have some decent knowledge of that sort, i take no responsibility)

Hope that helps any..

I checked the intranet status of the server, it was at 4% of its max

If I restarted the clients, everything worked perfect again, but only for 30mins or so

have you tried a packet sniffer to check network activity?

I agree with PL...Try a packet sniffer. It sounds like a service is loading the is killing the network speed.

you guys have any recommendations on wich program I should use? perferable freeware

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