Network cables crossing electrical wires

[velocci]

Hi all, my house has cat5 cables running throughout it, going from each room down to the basement where my cable modem and router is. I tested the speed on my cat5 cables and got about 45MB/s transfer rate. I tested the one cat5e cable I had and got about the same thing. I should get more. all my devices are set to gigabit. I read of a situation once where this person was getting low transfer rates on his network and couldn't figure out why. The problem ended up being that his network cables were to close to power cables or running parralel to them. as was my case around the area where my modem and router were located. so shuffled the cables around so none of the network cables were near power lines. But i still got the same transfer rates. But at the ceiling of my basement, there are a few places where the network cables cross with electrical wires and coaxial cables for my TV. Anyone know if this would affect speed performace? Should I put soemthing between the network cables and the electrical wires? I have some pictures, but they are located on my hardrive and I don't know how to attach them.

 

[rand_79]

your results seem slow but not wrong/busted slow.

if it was doing 100mbits a sec that maxes at 12MB/sec or so for instance.

I usually get 30-70MB/sec to my server running freenas.

between two fast computers running win7 i have seen upto 110MB/sec
(thats with raid arrays etc) usually they top out about 80MB/sec

my server usually never goes above 55MB/sec with an intel nic.
with a realtek it was below 40MB/sec
its an atom 330 based freenas box.

realistically anything over 20-30MB is fine

thats like 20 HD movies at the same time.

the only time you will notice it is if you are copying 100gigabytes at a time etc.
and I cant imagine that would be frequent or that you couldnt just start it and goto bed.

also as mentioned most laptop hardware is optimized for power savings.
there may be a power savings option to optimize for throughput available.

summary: somewhat slow.. but not excessively slow. live with it.. nothing is wrong. and still 3x faster than 100Mbit.

 

[Guest]

useful for me,thanks