Dual gigabit Ethernet bonding?

[fiverglem]

I was wondering since I have a 16 port gigabit switch and two PC's, one with a gigabit Ethernet on the motherboard with a pci gigabit card and my gaming PC with a gigabit Ethernet on board and a USB 3.0 to gigabit Ethernet connector. Would it be possible to connect these two PC's together, sort of like bonding them, to create a faster connection between the two? I use one of the PC's as a media server and have to move 100GB's at a time sometimes and its frustrating to wait the 40 minutes it takes over a single gigabit connection. So main question would be...is there a way to bond two gigabit Ethernet connections to from a type of 2 gigabit connection?

 

[iamacow]

I'm not sure about channel bonding two different devices. I usually do it with dual jack either cards (like intel) or sometimes the motherboard has two jacks.

If you moving that much data at a time I suggest looking into running CAT6 cables, NIC cards and 10Gbit switch. It will go the speed of your hard drives since 1GB/s a sec is faster than all SSDs and mostly everything else outside a giant raid.

https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-ProSAFE-10-Gigabit-Ethernet-XS708E-200NES/dp/B01GTWPTJY/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489254059&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=netgear+10gbit+switch

 

[fiverglem]

I'm not sure about channel bonding two different devices. I usually do it with dual jack either cards (like intel) or sometimes the motherboard has two jacks.

If you moving that much data at a time I suggest looking into running CAT6 cables, NIC cards and 10Gbit switch. It will go the speed of your hard drives since 1GB/s a sec is faster than all SSDs and mostly everything else outside a giant raid.

https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-ProSAFE-10-Gigabit-Ethernet-XS708E-200NES/dp/B01GTWPTJY/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489254059&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=netgear+10gbit+switch

any solutions that wont run me over 50$? lol...just spent a good chunk of change getting my server rack up and running and just looking for something faster than 1G ethernet...without having to use an add-on card on my gaming PC since it only has the PCI-e for the graphics card

 

[ss202sl]

Data throughput will be determined by the slowest thing in the stream - usually the HDD. Increasing the speed of the network won't necessarily increase the speed of downloads.

You could use robocopy to synchronize a folder at night(set is up as a scheduled task - run every night).

 

[USAFRet]

If it takes 40 minutes to move that 100GB, plan ahead and start 40 minutes earlier.
How often are you moving that much data back and forth?

Why can't you just play the media directly from the server box? That's what I do.
A NAS with all the movies/music/videos. A low power PC, that reads directly off the NAS box, across the gigabit LAN, and delivers HDMI to the TV. The data does not have to physically move off the NAS box to the HTPC box.

 

[fiverglem]

Data throughput will be determined by the slowest thing in the stream - usually the HDD. Increasing the speed of the network won't necessarily increase the speed of downloads.

You could use robocopy to synchronize a folder at night(set is up as a scheduled task - run every night).

that part i already know...i just don't know a lot about networking. My thing is though that the drives can talk to each other at around 100-150MB/s so why am i limited to around 80MB/s when transferring...i would just like to get the fastest possible connection i can.

 

[fiverglem]

If it takes 40 minutes to move that 100GB, plan ahead and start 40 minutes earlier.
How often are you moving that much data back and forth?

Why can't you just play the media directly from the server box? That's what I do.
A NAS with all the movies/music/videos. A low power PC, that reads directly off the NAS box, across the gigabit LAN, and delivers HDMI to the TV. The data does not have to physically move off the NAS box to the HTPC box.

Not a whole lot but i am planning to do a full 2TB+1TB=500GB backup to the server system i have set up. And i do play it off of the server (not a NAS...its actually a full blown PC inside of a server chassis mounted on a server rack) its just that sometimes the server is being used and i have to download something onto my gaming PC then transfer it later.

 

[little_me]

1Gigabit, basically 125MegaBytes.
Due to other than plain data in IP packets, you have something else besides just data, lowering the speed to that 80MB/sec.
Without upgrading your switch/network cards to support bonding/load balancing (or 10Gbit speeds) you are stuck where you are.

so.. below $50? nope, solution doesn't exist as far as I know. If you need the extra speed, you would need to upgrade the network to 10Gbit as iamacow suggested.

As side note, if 100GB takes 40 mins, your average transfer speed is 100/(40*60)=41MB/sec, most likely limited by your hard disk, not your network.

 

[Scottray]

Link aggregation doesn't increase the maximum throughput between a server and a PC. Link Aggregation allows (for instance) 2 PC to communicate, each at 1GB with a server (with link agg enabled and a supported managed switch) at the same time. As noted above, to increase throughput, you'll need to replace the slowest hardware and bump up to 10GB - lots of $$$$.