Netgear Switch Help

[Gibbs]

hello all, some help required on a set up I want employ at my office.

I have a few test machines which are all connected to the main office network at 10MB/s.

I have the need to transfer large files between these machines and at 10MB/s its just too dam slow for my liking.

I raided the It-support store room and found a Netgear GS608 v2 switch. Now when I plus all 3 machines into ports 1 to 3, and then plug the main network in port 4, transfer speeds are worse, connection gets dropped randomly from the windows machines.

The lights on the switch are also blinking like mad as if there's a load of data going through when idle.

Any thoughts gents, have I just go the wrong switch or is it a config issue on the machines.


Cheers
Joe

 

[TrX]

You should ask yourself why that switch was stuck in an IT room in the first place, if it wasnt shiney and new and boxed you've probably found your answer.


If it was shiney and new and boxed, I've had awful issues with that exact switch speed-wise with it randomly dragging down the speed of anything through it.

My concerns about the switches crapness aside, you could always verify a few things to rule individual items in/out;

- Check the duplex/speed of each box negotiated with the switch.
- Transfer files from each to each to rule in/out if it's just one server/cable or the switch as a whole.

My guess is it's still the switch, a few people on here will agree as they've had the same issue with the same switches.

For future reference, network link bandwidth is specified in Mbits, not MBytes, transferring at 10MB will most likley be a 100Mbit lan.