this is seriously messed up and it only seems to have started recently.
my network consists of 3 PCs.
one for the family, my gaming pc, and a pc used to run game servers.
there all hooked upto the network, the gaming and family pc both use dhcp, the server pc has a static ip on the network and has the correct dns etc settings. the router is set to allow 3 dhcp clients and the range does not include the server pcs static ip, and all the nics are set to use 100mbit/sec. lately though, the server pc has been having slow bandwidth issues.
i'll try to copy a small file over, something thats only around 1mb or so, and it'll take 20 mins. will try to download a patch for the game servers, and it'll only download at 5kb/sec. i know its not the site either, since downloading from the site on my gaming pc will resault in a 180kb/sec download speed. rebooted the server pc and it went a whoppong 7kb/sec.
its running win2k, and granted, it is pretty old (1ghz p3 with 128mb of ram) but that should have no effect on the bandwidth. it was going fine and fast a few months ago. and the pc is used for nothing else at all so i doubt it would be spyware or a virus unless one went over the network. but theres no unusual processes running and nothing to hint theres a virus.
so...wtf is up with my network?
i'm pretty sure i've checked everything and can find no reason for it to not work. but maybe i overlooked something
my network consists of 3 PCs.
one for the family, my gaming pc, and a pc used to run game servers.
there all hooked upto the network, the gaming and family pc both use dhcp, the server pc has a static ip on the network and has the correct dns etc settings. the router is set to allow 3 dhcp clients and the range does not include the server pcs static ip, and all the nics are set to use 100mbit/sec. lately though, the server pc has been having slow bandwidth issues.
i'll try to copy a small file over, something thats only around 1mb or so, and it'll take 20 mins. will try to download a patch for the game servers, and it'll only download at 5kb/sec. i know its not the site either, since downloading from the site on my gaming pc will resault in a 180kb/sec download speed. rebooted the server pc and it went a whoppong 7kb/sec.
its running win2k, and granted, it is pretty old (1ghz p3 with 128mb of ram) but that should have no effect on the bandwidth. it was going fine and fast a few months ago. and the pc is used for nothing else at all so i doubt it would be spyware or a virus unless one went over the network. but theres no unusual processes running and nothing to hint theres a virus.
so...wtf is up with my network?
i'm pretty sure i've checked everything and can find no reason for it to not work. but maybe i overlooked something
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