FTP for LAN use

[Ja9o]

Ok here is my situation. I have a 10/100 Hub and a LinkSys router. The cablemodem is hooked into the uplink port of the hub and I am hooked onto the hub. The router is connected to the hub via the router's wan port and a normal port on the hub. All computers are able to connect to the internet. So no problems there. Before I formatted my comp, my family was able to connect to my FTP through my IP and able to download at speeds of up to 500-600kb/sec. After reinstalling Win98, my family only obtains speeds of 30kb/sec which is what my cable upload is capped at.

How can I obtain those LAN speeds again? Are there any protocols besides TCP/IP that i need to install?

[C.M. Weaver]

You should be connecting the cable modem to the WAN port on your router and the hub to the uplink port on the router.

What your doing is creating collisions on your network throught hub before they ever get the the Linksys router (I'm assuming you have the switching model). this is one of the reasons your seeing such a degradation in LAN performance.

[Ja9o]

What i meant was that the files being sent aren't going through the LAN, but through Roadrunner first then to the computer. Which is why the speeds are 30kb/sec (capped upload for Roadrunner)

[C.M. Weaver]

Let make sure I understand this. You have other nodes on your internal LAN connection to an FTP Server you have running on one of them, but you have them connect to the public IP assigned by your ISP? Correct?

Why not just have nodes on your LAN connect to the FTP server using the internal IP of the machine running the server? This way you eliminate the need for your data to go to your ISP for routing to your router then to the internal machine hosting FTP.

[nurotoxin]

what the F**K are you doing with the hub pluged in before the router?? if you are using other IP's or cant get a server running through the router read the book that came with the device it prity mutch explains every thing. Two questions

1. Are you running DHCP or Static IP's on the LAN side of the router?

2. :eek: :eek: :eek: ?