KennyBoy_2000
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I have a small home office LAN with two computers connected over an Ethernet Cat5 wired network. Recently, my LAN speed has gone to a crawl. I've gone through all the normal Gateway reboot processes. After some experimentation, I find that when I unplugged my Windows 2003 server, my speed came back.
I suspected one of these systems (Windows 2003 server) had a NIC board failure because my Internet speed fell off a cliff. It went from 2 1/2 MPs to 3 MPs down to .25 approximately on the downstream side. If I unplug my 2003 server, and then run a speed test on the other workstation, all is fine. Here are my particulars.
ATT ProS service (5 sticky IPs)
Advertised as 3 MB down and 768 kb up.
Gateway Router - ATT (Netgear) 7550
Computer 1 (primary workstation)
Windows 7 / ASUS P8 Z68-V Pro motherboard
Intel i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40 GHz, 3.40 GHz
8 core
16 GB Memory
Computer 2 (server) - running a very light load.
Windows Server 2003/ Enterprise Edition (SP2)
Intel Pentium 4 3.00 GHz
2 core
1 GB Memory
NETWORK TOPOLOGY - ATT Gateway ->CAT5 -> Netgear dumb hub -->CAT5 -> Netgear switch GS698 v3
...and on the switch:
When this problem first occurred, I assumed it was a problem with the NIC card and Windows 2003 server, so I replaced the card with a D-Link DFE-530TX+PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev.F). I disabled the inbuilt network connection in the device manager. This seemed to help the problem initially, but it is back, big time now.
The problem still exists in when both systems are connected, my Internet speed goes to a crawl.
I have moved the Windows 2003 server over to the dumb hub without any change in results.
I switched out the Cat5 wiring links to eliminate those as a possibility.
I have a little bit of background as I've been around technology circles most of my life but I'm really application developer, not an IT specialist and really not sure how to analyze this problem outside of what I've already done.
I have an legacy application running on the Windows 2003 server which needs to be available online and would be very difficult to move.
I also have a couple of iPads hitting the gateway over wireless. They experience the same connection latency if the Windows 2003 server is plugged into the LAN as well.
So, I'm looking for some brilliant minds to help me solve this problem or point me in the right direction.
It certainly can't be that difficult - but so far it has been for me.
Any comments and suggestions are graciously appreciated. Where do I look next?
Ken
I suspected one of these systems (Windows 2003 server) had a NIC board failure because my Internet speed fell off a cliff. It went from 2 1/2 MPs to 3 MPs down to .25 approximately on the downstream side. If I unplug my 2003 server, and then run a speed test on the other workstation, all is fine. Here are my particulars.
ATT ProS service (5 sticky IPs)
Advertised as 3 MB down and 768 kb up.
Gateway Router - ATT (Netgear) 7550
Computer 1 (primary workstation)
Windows 7 / ASUS P8 Z68-V Pro motherboard
Intel i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40 GHz, 3.40 GHz
8 core
16 GB Memory
Computer 2 (server) - running a very light load.
Windows Server 2003/ Enterprise Edition (SP2)
Intel Pentium 4 3.00 GHz
2 core
1 GB Memory
NETWORK TOPOLOGY - ATT Gateway ->CAT5 -> Netgear dumb hub -->CAT5 -> Netgear switch GS698 v3
...and on the switch:
- Netgear switch GS698 v3 -->CAT6-> Computer 1 (pimary Windows 7 workstation)
- Netgear switch GS698 v3 -->CAT5 -> Computer 2 (2003 server)
- Netgear switch GS698 v3 -->CAT5 -> incoming
When this problem first occurred, I assumed it was a problem with the NIC card and Windows 2003 server, so I replaced the card with a D-Link DFE-530TX+PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev.F). I disabled the inbuilt network connection in the device manager. This seemed to help the problem initially, but it is back, big time now.
The problem still exists in when both systems are connected, my Internet speed goes to a crawl.
I have moved the Windows 2003 server over to the dumb hub without any change in results.
I switched out the Cat5 wiring links to eliminate those as a possibility.
I have a little bit of background as I've been around technology circles most of my life but I'm really application developer, not an IT specialist and really not sure how to analyze this problem outside of what I've already done.
I have an legacy application running on the Windows 2003 server which needs to be available online and would be very difficult to move.
I also have a couple of iPads hitting the gateway over wireless. They experience the same connection latency if the Windows 2003 server is plugged into the LAN as well.
So, I'm looking for some brilliant minds to help me solve this problem or point me in the right direction.
It certainly can't be that difficult - but so far it has been for me.
Any comments and suggestions are graciously appreciated. Where do I look next?
Ken
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