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re: Network speed between WinXP and Win98 (yeah its a b*tch)
Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 2:23 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ron
(1 messages posted)
I found a solution to my problem. I had used a shareware program ( TweakDUN I believe
) and it changed my registry settings. I referred to MS Q158474 and compared my registry
settings to Microsoft's default. My culprit was HKEY_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP
with an entry of 2000 for DefaultRcvWindow. I changed it back to the recommended
8192 and a 32 Mb file now takes 25 seconds to copy over instead of the 25 minutes
it used to take ! Network utilization went from 0.13 % up to around 16 %. Still not
sure why it's not closer to 100% ??? I hope this helps you out !
Now, if anyone can tell me how to get my Win98 PC to access shares on my WinXP Pro
( on a Domain )laptop, I will be grateful. The Win98 workgroup is the same as the
WinXP Domain, and eventhough I can 'see' the share, when I try to connect it gives
me a Logon Server Not Found error. What am I missing ??
On Sunday, October 27, 2002 at 3:33 am, Nico wrote:
>i have the same problem. i have 1 98SE and 1 XP pro running in a simple network
with
>a crosscable/switch (without internet yet, i want to get this running first)
>if i connect one of the computer directly to the cablemodem on the LAN it works
perfectly
>but when i connect them to eachother they can see eachother and share files but
takes
>it hours to transfer a simple file from one station to the other.
>also when i look at the networking tab in "windows task manager" the network utilization
>doesn't get any higher than 2%.
>i found some information about it on a site that has the same problem when using
>their product and the're still "investgating" the problem.... (AAAAARHG! i need
it
>fixed now! :) )
>
>Below is from a site about ACT!6.0
>
>Situation:
>You have a LAN with multiple Windows machines that are running various versions
of
>Windows prior to XP (an assortment of Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 configurations is
>possible). A single PC running Windows XP has been introduced into your network.
>The user of this machine has ACT! installed, and accesses a database stored in a
>network location (not on the local machine). The network works fine on all machines,
>until the Windows XP machine enters ACT! At that point, all machines on the network
>except the Windows XP machine slow to a crawl, whether in ACT! or any other program.
>The Windows XP machine still continues to function without problem.
>
>Solution:
>Network Collision Resolution
>This behavior is still under investigation. We believe it may be the result of an
>optimization in the way Windows XP's TCP/IP backoff protocol deals with network
collisions.
>When a single Windows XP machine resides on a LAN, it may be forgoing the standard
>backoff algorithm, thereby flooding the network and preventing the other machines
>from retransmitting. This problem could be encountered with any high-bandwidth operation.
>ACT! can generate a considerable amount of network traffic if you have several users
>accessing a shared database. so therefore exposes the issue.
>
>We suspect the slow-down will be most noticeable on a LAN which employs hubs rather
>than switches (hubs broadcast network packets, effectively flooding all machines).
>
>This hypothesis resulted from a document found in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
>It specifically addresses 'High Rate of Collisions on 100-MB Networks: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q315237.
>Refer to that document for registry modifications for customizing the adaptive backoff
>algorithm.
>
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