LAN transfer speed

[blowthemup]

Ive never done many file transfers over my home network. I have a lot of large videos i need to transfer from my laptop to my desktop. I did not join the computers in a home group, there just part of the same work group. When transferring a file I only get like 6 Mb/s transfer speed. This is way to slow for the amount of videos i need to share. Laptop is connected to the router wireless running windows 7 and the desktop in connected via Ethernet and running windows 10. Router is a linksys e1200. Am I missing something here but I thought transfer speeds should at least be a little better.

 

[bill001g]

Try with both connected via ethernet and see if it is still slow. It is not uncommon for wireless is cause issues.

 

[blowthemup]

Wired the laptop up and now i'm up to 11 MB/s, a little quicker but still not very impressive if you looking at transferring lots of data quickly.

Any other ideas or settings I can check? Would a better router than a linksys e1200 help? What would happen if I connected both computers to each other with an Ethernet cable?

 

[bill001g]

That is the speed you would expect from a device that has 100mbit ports. Network speeds include all the overhead where the speeds you see from a data transfer program only measure the data.


I would not bother with a new router I would buy a inexpensive 4 port gig switch and plug it into the router and your other equipment into the switch. You will never get really high speed on a wireless connection no matter what you do.

 

[blowthemup]

Well wouldn't wiring everything to the router be the same as adding a switch?

 

[bill001g]

Your router only has 10/100 ports. If you buy a router with gig ports it would. It is mostly that it is cheaper to buy the switch the a complete router. You really don't need the faster router unless you have a internet connection that is more than 100m.

 

[blowthemup]

Oh were making sense of things now I believe. So what about connecting both commuters to each other via ethernet? No network or router evolved just straight up pc to pc.

 

[bill001g]

It tends to be hard to get that to work. You will have to use static IP at the very minimum. For unknown reasons sometime the ports do not come up.

 

[blowthemup]

So what kind of speeds can you expect with gig ports? Also when does a network become too crowded for a simple router like I have?

 

[bill001g]

The router should never be a bottleneck on the lan side. Inside the router there is a small chip doing the function of a 4 port switch so it will perform the same as a switch. So your current router is the same as if you would connect your equipment with a 10/100 switch. A gig switch will give you about 10 times what you currently are getting.

Pretty much you will be limited to about 90% of the speed because the transfer programs do not account for the overhead. You are currently getting that rate.

 

[blowthemup]

Thanks for the help!