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Question by elmer yepez202.84.99.112 posted 11 Nov 2006 | | network problems | good day sir, i have a small cafe here in our town and maybe you can help me.
I am using three hubs. 2hubs have 24 ports and the other one have12 ports . I have 43 clients but when this 43 units run in thesame time, some clients cannot browse the server at the same time i cannot print since my printer is connected to the server. when one or more clients is shutted down , the one which cannot connect can connect. I am using windows xp sp2 , lan network using rj 45.please help me |  |
Answer by Dmitri Abaimov posted 11 Nov 2006 | Dear Elmer,
This issue is a little outside the scope of this particular Helpdesk. We are much more prepared to address physical infrastructure (cabling) related issues than issues with active equipment, which is what appears to be the case here.
Anyways, I will try to answer the question to the best of my knowledge and maybe you can find more help in the Ethernet discussion group.
Your PCs are all sharing the same Ethernet bus and problems with one client are affecting the rest of the clients. There may be couple things: one of the client PCs can be broadcasting IP packets thus using too much of the available bandwidth. There could also be IP address conflicts in the network - two or more PCs can have same IP addresses. I suggest that you get a copy of Ethereal (network analyzer software) and run it on one of your PCs to find any problem. You can also try to unplug PCs one by one and find the one that's causing the problem and keep it unplugged or have a professional look at the PC.
Good luck!
Sincerely,
Dmitri Abaimov, RCDD |
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