Network cards/wires

[Tim Doggett]

Right, i can get my network to regognise all my computers, and i can look at the drives on the other computers, but when i start to transfer a file across, it stops and crashes the computers after a while. has anyone any ideas whether this is due to the cards or the wires, as the cards were installed and recognised by plug and pray without any problems.

Cheers

[ajd73]

I have the same problem with a 10baseT Linksys starter kit and 2 computers. What hardware do you have? A friend suggested that there were too many errors at the lower network layers (or whatever they are called), and the computer crashes out.

[bdog]

It could be due to heavy network traffic. Do you have all the computers connected to a hub with a collision light? I have seen this happen before where the collision light started blinking, and then shortly after the file transfer failed.