Home Network Slowing Way Down

[Gallaeglagh]

The home network has gotten increasingly slow. The NICs are 100mb/s in the 4 important machines. The fastest speeds I've seen are 42mb/s. Lately though the speeds have fallen below 120kB/s across the Lan which is slower than we can download from the net. Not really sure what to check on this one. I suppose I could try a different switch. Any other ideas out there?

[Gallaeglagh]

Well I've been investigating this a bit further to see if I could isolate anything. We have 3 computers that were testing. The connections rates are such that each computer has a good and slow connection to the other two depending upon if uploading or downloading - a lil' traingle of confusion to me right now. Not sure how that helps me.
also haven't been able to locate the old switch we used to use

[Ghost_Hacker]

This article explains some things to look at :Common causes of network slowdowns (http://www.zdnet.com.au/itmanager/technology/story/0,2000029587,20266265,00.htm)


Good Luck :)

[Gallaeglagh]

Thanks for the link, it was helpful. I've run ping in between all the comps and the speeds seem good, generally 1ms sometimes it'll report <10ms. I ran the traceroute but the screen flashes by so quickly I couldn't read it. I'm thinking maybe the "spaghetti pile" of wires behind the desk is causing cross talk interference.

[Gallaeglagh]

Well I finally got the problem fixed. The Linksys router has failed. I probably would've been scratching my head for a while but then all the LEDs on the router wnt haywire.