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elbow=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Network File transfer  Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:33 am |
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I have a large quantity of files (9GB) between 5mb and 200mb on a computer with no DVD-RW which I want to transfer to my new computer. I've tried sending them over the network through my crappy switch, but any file larger than about 20mb freezes and wont transfer.
What am I doing wrong?
And no, its not pron  
Oh its also doing it for large picture files (>800K ish)
I don't have an external HD, except for my 10GB Zen and I don't want to kill the HDD by taking all the music off and on again etc
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:16 pm |
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It's odd about the freezes. I shall make some assumptions, you are using windows simple file sharing, no passwords to log onto the PC. Both PCs have network cards built into the motherboard and the new PC is fairly recent, then there is a good chance it has an Autosensing crossover built in.
If this is the case you can (temporarily) simply connect a cat V cable between the two nics and let windows on both machines use a 169.x.x.x address, if they both cannot find a dhcp server they should do this automaticaly. Then the transfer can be done at the fastest speed allowed by the slowest nic and bypass the switch. This may help if the switch is causing the problem (you mentioned it's crappy) and is simple to try.
Could someone make corrections / additions to this if necessary.
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:16 pm |
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Options :
1) Buy a new switch, if your pc's are close then use a crossover cable?
2) Buy a dvdrw - approx 25 - 30 quid here.
3) Put the hard drive with the data in your other computer and copy it a cross. _________________ 
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Post subject: files Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:41 pm |
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iv seen this before with a crap switch
try ftp instead of crappy smb transfers as well
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elbow=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Re: files Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:44 pm |
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happyslappy wrote: iv seen this before with a crap switch
try ftp instead of crappy smb transfers as well
could someone translate that?
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Post subject: switch Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 4:18 pm |
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dont use windows network shares - setup a ftp server on one and move them that way
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elbow=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 4:37 pm |
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ah right...cheers
whats good 3rd party software to use?
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 1:44 pm |
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you can try FileZilla, but for file transfert through ftp you need of an ftp server program too. So, you need to download both version of filezilla;
server version and client version.
here all the details:
httxp://sourceforge.net/project/showfil ... p_id=21558
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elbow=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:19 am |
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cheers mate, works like a dream...
i was looking for filezilla server, but couldn't find it 
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:00 pm |
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Yep, some of the network stuff in XP are poor crap, i tell you.
Hopefully this will be fixed.
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 7:19 pm |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:35 am |
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Filezilla are nice, especially if you set it to only login once at a session  _________________  In my view Kaldru is tirelessly stringent, but very fair - Lemon= GCHQ= Kaldru - A mythical creature that descends upon the unworthy, banning them from the sacred servers
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