Originally Posted by rowan

I've upgraded to fastethernet (100Mbit/sec) and installed Samba so that I can back up directly from my XP box to my server, but it's pretty slow! The maximum speed is about 6Mbytes/sec, and it slows down other network activity from the comp like web browsing... I guess it's near completely saturated.

Anyone here use gigabit ether? (1000Mbit/sec). I'm pretty sure my server and drive are not the bottleneck in this case... perhaps a couple of gigabit cards and a crossover cable would do the trick.