slow intranet, normal internet

[nlm9802]

I've got a user running win2ksp3, as all other machines on the network do.
Their bandwidth is about 20Kb/s on the intranet, on a 100mb/s link. logging in takes ~3 minutes, even when creating a new profile. also, accessing network shares seems to take a while, longer than on any other computer in the office.
accessing local folders is the normal near-instant response time.

I checked the settings on the adapter and it's set to 100baseTx full duplex, the switch he runs through is autodetect. I can't find any settings on his pc that are different from anyone else. His LAN drop is good to go, because he can login/etc and access the internet at normal t-1 speeds.

anyone run into this problem before? it almost seems like some kind of permissions problem, like win2k has to reverify him every 2 seconds or something.

 

[ashpp]

Is the DNS on that machine setup correctly. The client should only be pointing to the server, the server should only be pointing at itself.

Ash.

 

[nlm9802]

indeed it is, all network settings are identical to the pc in the next office. at least server-wise. running dhcp, getting an ip no problem

 

[nlm9802]

searching on google the only other possibility I found was a bad cat5 cable. I tired a new one of those too, still very slow.

it takes about 2-2.5 minutes total from entering username/pw at the prompt, to all the desktop icons appearing. In comparison, it takes about 15-20 seconds on all other machines in that office, and my own, on a different floor.

I'm running out of ideas, and may just end up copying his important documents to his networked drive and reloading his machine.

 

[Lequang]

You should keep in mind couple of things:
1. if the nic is in "autonegociating" mode and negociation fail, then the link is dropped to 10Mbps.
So i suggest you to set to autosensing -half duplex mode and do the testing.
2. Do you have single NT domain spread over wan?
If yes, this might be the reason.

Le