[Resolved] Network Help

[Pythagoras]

The company I work for has about 12 machine tied together through a hub.
When I want to view a file on a mapped network drive it takes forever for the files to show up? Any solutions?

Also there are 2 machines that "talk" to each other all the time. Could I hook the 2 of those up directly, then connect one of those two machines to the hub to "talk" to the other machines? If so how? Would this speed up the rate for at least those two machines?

Any help\suggetstions would be great.

Thanks, Tim

[conipto]

Connect the two that communicate all the time together with a switch instead of a hub, with the uplink port connected to your main hub (which should be replaced by a switch also, they aren't too expensive), this way those two can talk to each other all day without affecting your other network traffic, and still both be able to communicate with the main network at any time.

Bill

[Ideas Man]

Yeah, buy a switch. This is because a hub broadcasts the message to all ports on the device whether they need it or not, which adds lots of unnecessary traffic. If two are constantly talking to each other, that's a lot of wasted information being sent to all computers that will slow it down (because the computer has to inspect each packet and realise it's not for it). A switch however only routes packets to it's destination, so the two that talk all the time would not affect the rest of the network.