I'm having network problems with my 2 nforce2 PC's. Some info on my system:
- I have XP SP2 on both computers.
- I used Windows Network wizard to set up my LAN.
- I'm not using a router, just 2 NIC's on the main computer. The main computer uses the onboard NIC for Internet Access and I have a PCI NIC to connect to my HTPC. My HTPC uses the onboard NIC.
- Main computer runs 24/7 while HTPC goes to S3 every once in a while.
- I use windows ICS and it works perfect. Pretty good speed here, while browsing/downloading, no matter what else I'm doing on both computers.
The problem I have is very slow file transfer and windows explorer locking up. When this happens, watching movies via network is impossible. Here are the symptoms:
- I have a 200gb HD on my main computer that's shared with the HTPC. Once in a while, when I use windows explorer to browse this HD, windows explorer just stop responding while I'm expading some folders and I have to kill the process. When I try to transfer a (small) file, it starts at 10 sec and it keeps increasing till 10-40min and then locks up. When I try to watch a movie through the network, it gets really choppy.
- If I reboot the HTPC, problems seems to go away for a while. If I reboot and go straight to meedio/zoomplayer, I can watch movies the whole day, without any problems. But if I go to windows explorer, I'll get the problem again, maybe not immediately, but eventually. This indicates that my problem is related to windows explorer/folder browsing/file transfer.
- I used to get this problem everytime my HTPC came back from S3. I "fixed" that by changing power option on my NIC to keep my NIC powered up during S3. Now the problems happens independently of this.
So, it seems something triggers the problem. I could not track the cause, since it seems pretty random! Sometimes, I reboot my htpc and go straight to windows explorer to browse my shared drive and windows explorer locks up immediately. Sometimes, I can keep browsing folders for 1-10 minutes and then it locks up.
If anyone with more experience with network settings can help me out on this, I'd appreciate it. I'm considering formating the HTPC ...
- I have XP SP2 on both computers.
- I used Windows Network wizard to set up my LAN.
- I'm not using a router, just 2 NIC's on the main computer. The main computer uses the onboard NIC for Internet Access and I have a PCI NIC to connect to my HTPC. My HTPC uses the onboard NIC.
- Main computer runs 24/7 while HTPC goes to S3 every once in a while.
- I use windows ICS and it works perfect. Pretty good speed here, while browsing/downloading, no matter what else I'm doing on both computers.
The problem I have is very slow file transfer and windows explorer locking up. When this happens, watching movies via network is impossible. Here are the symptoms:
- I have a 200gb HD on my main computer that's shared with the HTPC. Once in a while, when I use windows explorer to browse this HD, windows explorer just stop responding while I'm expading some folders and I have to kill the process. When I try to transfer a (small) file, it starts at 10 sec and it keeps increasing till 10-40min and then locks up. When I try to watch a movie through the network, it gets really choppy.
- If I reboot the HTPC, problems seems to go away for a while. If I reboot and go straight to meedio/zoomplayer, I can watch movies the whole day, without any problems. But if I go to windows explorer, I'll get the problem again, maybe not immediately, but eventually. This indicates that my problem is related to windows explorer/folder browsing/file transfer.
- I used to get this problem everytime my HTPC came back from S3. I "fixed" that by changing power option on my NIC to keep my NIC powered up during S3. Now the problems happens independently of this.
So, it seems something triggers the problem. I could not track the cause, since it seems pretty random! Sometimes, I reboot my htpc and go straight to windows explorer to browse my shared drive and windows explorer locks up immediately. Sometimes, I can keep browsing folders for 1-10 minutes and then it locks up.
If anyone with more experience with network settings can help me out on this, I'd appreciate it. I'm considering formating the HTPC ...