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increase lan speed in xp
Name: yvinod123 Date: June 4, 2009 at 01:09:49 Pacific OS: Windows XP SP-2 Subcategory: General
Comment:
i want to increase lan speed in xp sp2 for viewing other computer's document and for printing speed also plz help me out ergent
Name: Curt R Date: June 4, 2009 at 05:56:46 Pacific
Reply:
You would have to get faster network interfaces on all equipment in your network. So if your XP PC's present NIC is 100 Mbps, you'd need to get a 1000 Mbps NIC and install it. You'd also have to ensure everything else in your network was 1000 Mbps because a network only runs at the speed of it's slowest device.
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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer Date: June 4, 2009 at 08:17:29 Pacific
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The slowest device is usually the hard drive.
yvinod123 your question is too general. You need to specifically state why you think your network is slow and cite specific examples. You would also need to tell us the topology [how and what is connected to what], ram, cpu etc
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