Networking always works fine for me, so long as you make the PCs you want discoverable. Just you, it seems.
7 networking has worked great for me, things start getting fucked when I try to add my parents Vista pc to the network.
I knowJdeFalconr wrote:
The majority of networking equipment measures bandwidth in mega BITS per second.FloppY_ wrote:
Everything should be capable of 100mbps which is what my lan is running according to windows...liquidat0r wrote:
I presume you're using megabit-capable-only hardware somewhere along the way, such as your router. Hence, ~11MB/s.
MB = megabyte
Mb / mb = megabit
Recall that 8 megabits = 1 megabyte.
Therefore
11MBps ~ 88mbps. Don't forget that it only takes a single link in the chain running at 100mbps to make a 1000mbps (gigabit) network slow down to the lower rate. The NICs at both ends, the switch in between, the router (if it's involved; shouldn't be in this case), and all of the cabling needs to be able to run at 1000mbps and actually operating at that speed too. Furthermore, it takes some serious hardware to get wire-speed performance (i.e. to make a 1000mbps network actually transfer at that full bandwidth rate; same goes for 100mbps).
As for your networking issue, are you trying to locate your machines by name or by IP? You might want to try connecting via IP and making sure to set up DHCP reservations on your router for each computer. If you have to keep reauthenticaing to each computer (someome mentioned that above) that can be annoying as there's no domain server processing auth requests in a P2P sharing scenario.
If you're really into filesharing on your network you might consider setting up a flie server. Even an old junky computer can host and share out files easily. I'm a huge fan of Windows Home Server for that purpose, or hell you could just load XP onto it.
I can ping via IP but can't discover it by searching for it on the network...
I only use filesharing to sync between my laptop and desktop
Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
Network Discovery turned on? (on both computers)
If you're sharing a specific folder, did you try entering the UNC path of the shared folder into the Windows Explorer address bar?
If you're sharing a specific folder, did you try entering the UNC path of the shared folder into the Windows Explorer address bar?
Last edited by ebug9 (2011-02-21 15:31:36)
UNC?ebug9 wrote:
Network Discovery turned on? (on both computers)
http://i51.tinypic.com/oscuft.jpg
If you're sharing a specific folder, did you try entering the UNC path of the shared folder into the Windows Explorer address bar?
ofc discovery is on
Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
\\COMPUTER-NAME\NAME-OF-SHARED-FOLDER\subdir\subsubdir
as if it were a URL
at least I think that's what he means.
as if it were a URL
at least I think that's what he means.
Yes that's it.
And more like:
\\Floppy-PC\porn\moreporn\weirderporn\
And more like:
\\Floppy-PC\porn\moreporn\weirderporn\
oh ofc. I couldn't remember that one when I was doing itliquidat0r wrote:
\\COMPUTER-NAME\NAME-OF-SHARED-FOLDER\subdir\subsubdir
as if it were a URL
at least I think that's what he means.
Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
You can't believe an interface that runs at 480Mbps is faster than one that runs at 100Mbps?FloppY_ wrote:
I just can't believe USB is over twice as fastliquidat0r wrote:
Which is what it is doing, roughly.
Time to get new router & cables I guess...
Why not?