Strange Network Problem
posted in Networking, Technology |One of my home machines has terrible network performance. Its an older Shuttle SB51G but it appears to mostly be in good shape running Vista with all the latest driver updates. It tends to run about 100k bytes/sec on a 100mbps Ethernet connection to a local server that normally gives much much better results. The bandwidth usage (as show in taskman) jumps all over but never gets more than 2%.
It is plugged into my gigabit ethernet switch which has been handling traffic just fine including 100mbps connections. I tried switching the cables used to connect it. I’m pretty sure this machine used to have decent network performance. Doing a NETSTAT -E shows only 8 ethernet “errors” which doesn’t seem abnormally high. NETSTAT -S shows ~1000 TCP retransmits and ~1800 UDP errors, but its been running for a long time and again those aren’t especially high.
Any suggestions?