some hopeless computer geek I am
Thursday, 10 November 2005 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eI got fed up with slow network speeds between my computers. It is OK for transferring individual files, but for backing up hundreds of megabytes or even some gigabytes it gets tedious waiting for hours for all the stuff to transfer. The other day I finally coughed up the money for some nice fast ethernet cards to replace the old 10Mbps cards I have. Didn't take me long to install them, and not much longer to install the drivers. But then the hassles started. I couldn't get the network to connect. I tried heaps of different things including opening up the machines and making sure the cards were in properly (yep).
I must have been tired because it took me ages to try what should have been the first test. If things don't work then swap over parts, including cables. Well I finally swapped cables around. Should have made no difference, right? Wrong. It became immediately obvious that the old faithful cables I'd been using for years didn't like the high transfer rates and became unreliable. I pulled out the old cables and replaced with new ones and all problems solved. I now have nice fast ethernet. (Yay! OK. Hopeless or not I am a computer geek.)
I must have been tired because it took me ages to try what should have been the first test. If things don't work then swap over parts, including cables. Well I finally swapped cables around. Should have made no difference, right? Wrong. It became immediately obvious that the old faithful cables I'd been using for years didn't like the high transfer rates and became unreliable. I pulled out the old cables and replaced with new ones and all problems solved. I now have nice fast ethernet. (Yay! OK. Hopeless or not I am a computer geek.)