Migrating very large files over a LAN

This thread is especially interesting because I have the same situation with
transfer starting okay then crawling to snail's pace. I am also
transferring 4GB (about 20 200K movies) for data DVD burning. I have tried
pushing vs pulling.
When I pull to the ME system it receives at 6-7MB/s (according to Everest).
(Before it slows)
When I push to ME the transfer is at 3MB/s top.
The ME system has an NC100 v2 NIC.
The XP system has Realtek 8139.
Both have the latest drivers. When the transfer slows to a crawl it helps
here if I start a movie file playing from
the source drive, strange as that may be.

I have an SMC card in a 98SE system on my network. I think it has a Realtek
chipset.

Just now checked transfers between two XP systems with Realtek 8139s. They
transfer at 10MB/s according to Everest.

"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
From: "ng_reader"

| In the WinME box I have a dual SMC 10/100 card card.
|
| Probably not a bad idea, but not a Realtek.
|

What do you mean "..dual SMC 10/100 card.." Two 10/100Mb's Ethernet ports
?

Describe the Network configuration (all network components) under
networking on the WinME
PC.

Have you tried both PUSHING and PULLING the data files ?


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Un hook your LAN, get a CAT 5 crossover cable and connect the two together
with no interruptions

"ng_reader" wrote in message
...
I am having a difficult time moving 4x1GB files over my 100MB LAN.

One machine is XP Pro ( a notebook )

And the other machine is ME ( a desktop )

Until I can afford a faster PC, my work PC will have to suffice for
ripping
DVDs, and I want copy those files over.

I tried setting up a share, and using Explorer to copy it over, but that
does not seem to work. It started, but never finished.

So, I heard that NetMeeting had an FTP client built in, so I tried that.
Well, NetMeeting crashed on my ME machine, causing a GDI error in "conf",
and it wouldn't even load on the XP, telling me that version 3.01 will not
work - at all.

So maybe NetMeeting's time has come and gone? Did I miss that?

So, I have an old copy of WS_FTP Pro, which is an FTP client. I just
checked, and it works fine. (It's installed on my ME machine)

And then I went to a website that showed me how to enable FTP to a share
on
my notebook XP Pro computer. Which I did ( did I? I never setup a login
or
anything ) according to one person's opinion.

I know that I set the share up properly because I can see it on the other
machine.

The question is, my WS_FTP Pro, trying to connect to the shared file(s) on
255.255.255.255:21 did not seem to work. Causing a "Connect failure".

It's really a miner irritant only, but one that I'd like to know more
about.
And I reckon here on the Internet someone must know something.

Well, thanks again for looking. Feel free to castigate, investigate,
recapitulate, or repudiate at will.

Mr. Curious.

That may solve it,

But cripes, the NIC on the WinME is 10 years old. I checked with SMC, they
*officially* don't support it.

The Dell note has whatever on board, but so what.

In the past I would just hang the HD off the ribbon cable and copy it that
way. Kluge, but effective.

Moot point really, for now.
"Arthur" wrote in message
...
Un hook your LAN, get a CAT 5 crossover cable and connect the two together
with no interruptions

"ng_reader" wrote in message
...
I am having a difficult time moving 4x1GB files over my 100MB LAN.

One machine is XP Pro ( a notebook )

And the other machine is ME ( a desktop )

Until I can afford a faster PC, my work PC will have to suffice for
ripping
DVDs, and I want copy those files over.

I tried setting up a share, and using Explorer to copy it over, but that
does not seem to work. It started, but never finished.

So, I heard that NetMeeting had an FTP client built in, so I tried that.
Well, NetMeeting crashed on my ME machine, causing a GDI error in
"conf",
and it wouldn't even load on the XP, telling me that version 3.01 will
not
work - at all.

So maybe NetMeeting's time has come and gone? Did I miss that?

So, I have an old copy of WS_FTP Pro, which is an FTP client. I just
checked, and it works fine. (It's installed on my ME machine)

And then I went to a website that showed me how to enable FTP to a share
on
my notebook XP Pro computer. Which I did ( did I? I never setup a login
or
anything ) according to one person's opinion.

I know that I set the share up properly because I can see it on the
other
machine.

The question is, my WS_FTP Pro, trying to connect to the shared file(s)
on
255.255.255.255:21 did not seem to work. Causing a "Connect failure".

It's really a miner irritant only, but one that I'd like to know more
about.
And I reckon here on the Internet someone must know something.

Well, thanks again for looking. Feel free to castigate, investigate,
recapitulate, or repudiate at will.

Mr. Curious.

Check these ones, some are freetransfers.
I only tried the 1st one. I am not aware of the
file size acceptable to them.

http://www.yousendit.com/

http://rapidshare.de/
http://s1.ultrashare.net/
http://sharefiles.ru
http://www.come2store.com
http://www.datapickup.com/
http://www.dropload.com
http://www.myfilestash.com/
http://www.mytempdir.com/
http://www.putfile.com
http://www.rapidshare.de
http://www.sharebigfile.com
http://www.webfile.ru
http://www.yourfile.net
http://www.yousendit.com
http://www.yousendit.com/
http://www.youshareit.com/
http://www.zippyvideos.com
www.dropload.com

"ng_reader" wrote in message
...
I am having a difficult time moving 4x1GB files over my 100MB LAN.

One machine is XP Pro ( a notebook )

And the other machine is ME ( a desktop )

Until I can afford a faster PC, my work PC will have to suffice for ripping
DVDs, and I want copy those files over.

I tried setting up a share, and using Explorer to copy it over, but that
does not seem to work. It started, but never finished.

So, I heard that NetMeeting had an FTP client built in, so I tried that.
Well, NetMeeting crashed on my ME machine, causing a GDI error in "conf",
and it wouldn't even load on the XP, telling me that version 3.01 will not
work - at all.

So maybe NetMeeting's time has come and gone? Did I miss that?

So, I have an old copy of WS_FTP Pro, which is an FTP client. I just
checked, and it works fine. (It's installed on my ME machine)

And then I went to a website that showed me how to enable FTP to a share on
my notebook XP Pro computer. Which I did ( did I? I never setup a login or
anything ) according to one person's opinion.

I know that I set the share up properly because I can see it on the other
machine.

The question is, my WS_FTP Pro, trying to connect to the shared file(s) on
255.255.255.255:21 did not seem to work. Causing a "Connect failure".

It's really a miner irritant only, but one that I'd like to know more about.
And I reckon here on the Internet someone must know something.

Well, thanks again for looking. Feel free to castigate, investigate,
recapitulate, or repudiate at will.

Mr. Curious.

cool.

I'll post back with results.

I have a nagging suspicion (confirmed with other posters) that it may be a
driver/nic issue.

-t


"AAH" wrote in message
...
Check these ones, some are freetransfers.
I only tried the 1st one. I am not aware of the
file size acceptable to them.

http://www.yousendit.com/

http://rapidshare.de/
http://s1.ultrashare.net/
http://sharefiles.ru
http://www.come2store.com
http://www.datapickup.com/
http://www.dropload.com
http://www.myfilestash.com/
http://www.mytempdir.com/
http://www.putfile.com
http://www.rapidshare.de
http://www.sharebigfile.com
http://www.webfile.ru
http://www.yourfile.net
http://www.yousendit.com
http://www.yousendit.com/
http://www.youshareit.com/
http://www.zippyvideos.com
www.dropload.com

"ng_reader" wrote in message
...
I am having a difficult time moving 4x1GB files over my 100MB LAN.

One machine is XP Pro ( a notebook )

And the other machine is ME ( a desktop )

Until I can afford a faster PC, my work PC will have to suffice for
ripping
DVDs, and I want copy those files over.

I tried setting up a share, and using Explorer to copy it over, but that
does not seem to work. It started, but never finished.

So, I heard that NetMeeting had an FTP client built in, so I tried that.
Well, NetMeeting crashed on my ME machine, causing a GDI error in "conf",
and it wouldn't even load on the XP, telling me that version 3.01 will not
work - at all.

So maybe NetMeeting's time has come and gone? Did I miss that?

So, I have an old copy of WS_FTP Pro, which is an FTP client. I just
checked, and it works fine. (It's installed on my ME machine)

And then I went to a website that showed me how to enable FTP to a share
on
my notebook XP Pro computer. Which I did ( did I? I never setup a login
or
anything ) according to one person's opinion.

I know that I set the share up properly because I can see it on the other
machine.

The question is, my WS_FTP Pro, trying to connect to the shared file(s) on
255.255.255.255:21 did not seem to work. Causing a "Connect failure".

It's really a miner irritant only, but one that I'd like to know more
about.
And I reckon here on the Internet someone must know something.

Well, thanks again for looking. Feel free to castigate, investigate,
recapitulate, or repudiate at will.

Mr. Curious.

Oh, sorry.

These sites are mostly for bulk loading of files. I have no idea how these
companies make any money, and there are so many of them!

I think I need to shop for a new network interface card, if I'm serious.


"ng_reader" wrote in message
...
cool.

I'll post back with results.

I have a nagging suspicion (confirmed with other posters) that it may be a
driver/nic issue.

-t


"AAH" wrote in message
...
Check these ones, some are freetransfers.
I only tried the 1st one. I am not aware of the
file size acceptable to them.

http://www.yousendit.com/

http://rapidshare.de/
http://s1.ultrashare.net/
http://sharefiles.ru
http://www.come2store.com
http://www.datapickup.com/
http://www.dropload.com
http://www.myfilestash.com/
http://www.mytempdir.com/
http://www.putfile.com
http://www.rapidshare.de
http://www.sharebigfile.com
http://www.webfile.ru
http://www.yourfile.net
http://www.yousendit.com
http://www.yousendit.com/
http://www.youshareit.com/
http://www.zippyvideos.com
www.dropload.com

"ng_reader" wrote in message
...
I am having a difficult time moving 4x1GB files over my 100MB LAN.

One machine is XP Pro ( a notebook )

And the other machine is ME ( a desktop )

Until I can afford a faster PC, my work PC will have to suffice for
ripping
DVDs, and I want copy those files over.

I tried setting up a share, and using Explorer to copy it over, but that
does not seem to work. It started, but never finished.

So, I heard that NetMeeting had an FTP client built in, so I tried that.
Well, NetMeeting crashed on my ME machine, causing a GDI error in
"conf",
and it wouldn't even load on the XP, telling me that version 3.01 will
not
work - at all.

So maybe NetMeeting's time has come and gone? Did I miss that?

So, I have an old copy of WS_FTP Pro, which is an FTP client. I just
checked, and it works fine. (It's installed on my ME machine)

And then I went to a website that showed me how to enable FTP to a share
on
my notebook XP Pro computer. Which I did ( did I? I never setup a login
or
anything ) according to one person's opinion.

I know that I set the share up properly because I can see it on the
other
machine.

The question is, my WS_FTP Pro, trying to connect to the shared file(s)
on
255.255.255.255:21 did not seem to work. Causing a "Connect failure".

It's really a miner irritant only, but one that I'd like to know more
about.
And I reckon here on the Internet someone must know something.

Well, thanks again for looking. Feel free to castigate, investigate,
recapitulate, or repudiate at will.

Mr. Curious.

On my ME system I replaced the NC100 (v2) NIC with the SMC 1244TX. It does
have Realtek 8139 chipset. Installed the drivers dated March 2005. The
file transfer situation did not improve at all.


"John Marion" wrote in message
...
This thread is especially interesting because I have the same situation
with
transfer starting okay then crawling to snail's pace. I am also
transferring 4GB (about 20 200K movies) for data DVD burning. I have
tried
pushing vs pulling.
When I pull to the ME system it receives at 6-7MB/s (according to
Everest).
(Before it slows)
When I push to ME the transfer is at 3MB/s top.
The ME system has an NC100 v2 NIC.
The XP system has Realtek 8139.
Both have the latest drivers. When the transfer slows to a crawl it helps
here if I start a movie file playing from
the source drive, strange as that may be.

I have an SMC card in a 98SE system on my network. I think it has a
Realtek
chipset.

Just now checked transfers between two XP systems with Realtek 8139s.
They
transfer at 10MB/s according to Everest.

"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
From: "ng_reader"

| In the WinME box I have a dual SMC 10/100 card card.
|
| Probably not a bad idea, but not a Realtek.
|

What do you mean "..dual SMC 10/100 card.." Two 10/100Mb's Ethernet
ports
?

Describe the Network configuration (all network components) under
networking on the WinME
PC.

Have you tried both PUSHING and PULLING the data files ?


--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm