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Speed up network between OS X and Windows XP
Authored by: angusyoung on Aug 30, '06 01:59:07AM

I was scratching my hair out trying to fix this on my network too and have made a key discovery.

The culprit in my case was the onboard LAN card on my motherboard on the XP machine. It uses a VIA chipset. VIA chipsets have given me nothing but grief over the years, and lo, its that again!

Have installed a new NIC with a different chipset, and now I get superfast transfers from OSX to XP and XP to OSX using FTP or Samba.

For a few quid you can pick up a new NIC.
Try it, it worked for me.



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