Network Speeds!!

**shadows** · June 13th, 2002, 12:38 PM

Hey guys, I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop. with the dell MiniPCI wifi card, and the 3com network 10/100 card.

I was wondering...in the networking section of task manager....the "network utilization ever reaches above 1% for downloading and uploading. for either the wireless or the wire network. Is there a way to trick it into using the full 100Mbps or the 11Mbps? or if not...is there a way to trick it into using both the wirelss card and the LAN card at the same time to increase my speeds. I figure that this has to do with two parts, the network I am running on and hardware limitations put in by the computer companies.

I know in linux you can have up to 8 network cards running at the same time to increase your speeds..does anyone know of a similar program for windows? or something to tie in the few connections I have to increase?

**Cruez** · June 13th, 2002, 01:03 PM

What kind of network are you on?... How many PC's?

**hawkeye177** · June 13th, 2002, 01:11 PM

Well is depends how big of a file you are moving. If you are moving a big file it should get in the 80-90% usage. If you are moving a small file like less than 1mb the wireless should get little high. While the 10/100 should stay low.
I could be wrong.

**shadows** · June 14th, 2002, 11:30 AM

I have 2 networks, my one at work.
4 dedicated t1 lines for our school district. supposedly 1.5 up and down. Couldn't count how many computers...but I know that at the end of my work day there are less than 100 district wide.

my one at home.
dsl 256 up 1.5 down supposedly.
active computers: 1 ibook, 1 Inspiron, 1 desktop (which just broke cuz i have a dumb s*&(@ bother)
Largest file transfer from the net 700 mbs. If i transfer inside my own network i get around 60% but off the net...never reaches above 1%.

**dragonb** · June 14th, 2002, 11:42 AM

well, if the nic is 100 Mbps and the internet is 1.5Mbps, that looks like around 1 percent to me.
I actually wouldn't worry about the utilization so much, it may even be averaging, and averaging in a lot of non use time. I would worry more about actual speeds your getting. Using either card, you shouldn't really notice a difference, because those cards aren't the bottleneck. The bottleneck is your internet connections which are still quite a bit slower, and the actual internet, which can be fast or slow depending on many things.
dragonb