Windows XP S-U-C-K-S at copying from one PC to another

[Deja Q]

I am moving 10GB files from the capture PC to the edit PC.

When doing a copy; transfer rates on my 100Mbps full duplex LAN average 500KB/s.

This problem is random as, after rebooting several times, the PC finally figures out what to do and I can get transfers of 7MB/s, which is where it ought to be. (40 minutes to transfer a file is much nicer tha 300 minutes...)

You wouldn't believe what I've done to fix the problem, including going to any number of websites AND changing NICs...

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Well ...

... it sounds like hardware problems. Not that WinXP is making matters any easier.

Unfortunately, such a problem would almost certainly be on the motherboard, in the bus system. I've had this happen to me twice (in the past 14 years).

Good luck with it.

--p!

[Deja Q]

9. Nope! I just finished manually deleting and reinstalling the tcp/ip client

and upon reinstalling and rebooting and registry editing and cleanup command processing and rebooting a third time, I'm transferring back at 7MB/s where it never should have dropped from in the first place.

(which is something no beginner should begin to attempt as it's been so poorly squigged into the OS itself, as with everything else... XP is a true technical mess on Microsoft's part... Just another reason for me to go back to Win2k until a good linux editing/cleanup program can be made...)

[Dogmudgeon]

13. Well!

That's a surprise. Here I've been thinking that the network guts were about the only thing that work transparently in Windows. My motherboard problems that led to very slow transfer rates were uncannily similar.

I wanted to go from Win2k to WinXP, but there is no real way to install it without jumping theough Mr. Gates' new licensing hoops. He's going to lose a lot of customers over that. Plus, all the times I've used XP, I've liked some of the special touches, but the OS is noticeably slower than Win2k.

At this point, I'm staying with Windows for two reasons only -- Office (and VBA) and Visual Basic. Once Open Office Write is "up to speed" and a decent free/open source clone of VB is available (and Kylix is close, though it's Pascal), I'll be spending most of my time looking at penguin icons.

--p!

[DS1]

2. Dude, you think everything sucks

Why should XP be any different?

[Deja Q]

3. Not Linux.

Nyah nyah nyah-nyah-nyah! :D

[DS1]

4. So, remind me why your using XP?

[Deja Q]

5. Because,

At least right now, the best video editing/cleanup tools are on Windows. I'm sure Linux will have something comparable one day. Right now they don't. So I am compelled to use Windows during the interim.

Oh, if you hate my attitude so much, and both your posts here are beginning to suggest I am an obvious annoyance for you, why not put me on ignore? Or better yet, come to my house and put me out of my misery? PM me and I'll give you directions and not even put up a struggle. Afterall, I remember several bullies who said "Beat him up. He doesn't fight back."

I could also just leave DU; I know how little I'm valued around here in general.

[I Have A Dream]

6. Why do you say that you're valued here so little, HypnoToad?

I enjoy your posts. Just remember that not getting a response to a post doesn't mean that there aren't people out there who've enjoyed and gotten something from your post.

:hug:

[billyskank]

11. Note to self: reply to HypnoToad's posts more

I value your presence around here, dude. Don't fuck off.

[Dogmudgeon]

12. Say, how well do you understand GRUB?

I've been learning Linux with Ubuntu, and setting up a dual-boot system (Ubuntu and Win2k) has been a nightmare. I'd actually like to boot from a floppy, and I'm doing that now, but I can't get it to run the actual boot script. I have to type in the commands -- root, initrd, and boot -- by hand, from the GRUB "shell". It won't run the script no matter where I put it.

Most of my own complaints about Linux actually have to do with user interface issues -- fonts being too big, apps still being underpowered, Open Office's replacement for Word being a lot weaker than everybody says it is, etc. I assume that about 75% of my gripes can be satisfied with some tweaking. Overall, I'm quite impressed with it, whether I'm running KDE or Gnome as the GUI manager.

The main problem remaining with Linux is that a newbie will recoil in horror at setting up a dual-boot system. About half of them will hose their Windows MBR (which I did, too, and then found out that my floppy died after NOT writing a copy of it to a floppy). This difficulty is the fault of the distro engineers who, in fairness, can't easily divine every possible configuration. The Ubuntu live distro worked so well that I wondered why their GRUB config script in the installation worked so poorly. But it's only a matter of time before someone gets it right.

At that point, I'll dupe a hundred disks myself and give them out to everyone I know.

--p!

[CatholicEdHead]

7. Buy a Mac

those G5's are well suited for video editing.

[gizmo1979]

8. I did that in may.

It took me 3 weeks working on it for a minimum of 3 hrs a night to get my pc running right.I thought about linnux,but a computer guy at work says that is not a good option.

[billyskank]

10. You could burn a couple of Knoppix discs

and then use SFTP to transfer the files, if you have that sort of trouble again...