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Slow network connectivity WHS-2011, whats wrong?

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I've had several disasters on my home network WHS-2011:
First, I moved to a new physical home address, so the network was torn down and reassembled.
Second, my client computers HDD started failing, so I replaced it.
Third, my restore image wouldn't restore.
Fourth, I just finished reloading everything on my client computer.
Fith, I lost a bunch of movies with "copy restrictions" because this is a "new" computer according to MS.
And now I'm trying to transfer data back across the network and its extreamely slow, it takes 18hours to transfer 778mb @4.87kbps, according to windows explorer. And then it looses connection to the WHS.
What the heck is wrong, this thing used to fly, my router is 1g port speeds (all wired ports are 1g & cat5 cables, although I may have plugged them into different port #s) and the distance is less than 6ft to all computers.
I have fast Internet speed of 20mbps and all computers can access the Internet fine. It's the wired LAN that is very slow.
The things that have changed are:
-wired client computer has been reloaded from scratch using the same computer name and IP address.
-a wireless phone has been added for Internet access.
-a wireless client has been added with only Internet access.
Things that I've done:
-rebooted router
-joined, left, then rejoind "homegroup" set up on WHS.
I can't think of anything else to do... It was working fine before I changed HDDs...
Monday, September 3, 2012 8:47 PM
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One thing to bear in mind is that homegroup and the WHS share permissions do not play well together. Homegroup permissions override the WHS share permisions and can give all sorts of problems.
You are better to remove the WHS from a home group and use the dashboard share management to control share access.
If you are utilising media streaming also bear in mind that dlna streaming has no concept of share permissions. This means that any folder/share with media streaming turmed on will be available to everyone not just the users you have specified in the share permissions. Not a bug but a side effect of the way the dlna spec was written.
Dave
The Frog on the Lilypad at Home
- Marked as answer by Sean Zhu - Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:00 AM
Sunday, September 9, 2012 11:42 PM
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Hi,
did you download and install the most current network card drivers instead of the built in?
If so, and this did not improve the speed, check, if the network cable is seated well (sometimes they have a certain gap and you might have to press the ends really in to get good contact).
In client and server open the Network and Sharing Center, Change Adapter Settings right click the Adapter and check its Status. Does it show the proper connection speed (on both ends)?
If one of the computers shows more than one network adapter, either disable the unused one or take care to make the relevant adapter the one with highest priority (in the above Screen menu Advanced/Advanced Settings).
Also check if any security suite may have an impact.
Is the data to be restored from backups or from shared folders?
Best greetings from Germany
OlafTuesday, September 4, 2012 1:03 PM -
Hi Olaf, thanks for responding,
Yes, I have the most current driver for the NIC. But I just realized this is the drive that has the problem (read error 07), so I can just imagine it's not reading the data at top speeds.
Plus, I'm not sure that I joined the Homegroup correctly. I may have started a new Homegroup instead. I am having major problems with shared folder access permissions, so my WHS is up now and I still have the old drive, I'm thinking it would be better to boot from the old Install and check the network out and then try a restore from the server backup files.
Unless you can help me with WHS, I'm off to that forum.
Thanks again,
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 8:46 PM -
One thing to bear in mind is that homegroup and the WHS share permissions do not play well together. Homegroup permissions override the WHS share permisions and can give all sorts of problems.
You are better to remove the WHS from a home group and use the dashboard share management to control share access.
If you are utilising media streaming also bear in mind that dlna streaming has no concept of share permissions. This means that any folder/share with media streaming turmed on will be available to everyone not just the users you have specified in the share permissions. Not a bug but a side effect of the way the dlna spec was written.
Dave
The Frog on the Lilypad at Home
- Marked as answer by Sean Zhu - Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:00 AM
Sunday, September 9, 2012 11:42 PM