Is my wired home network slow?

[perdomot]

Just networked my two home computers via a netgear router and it seems to me that the transfer rate is mighty slow even though I dont know how to test it. I've been transfering large video files from one pc to the other and it took a long while. Can someone tell me what kind of speed I should expect from this set up and how can I test it? Thanks.

 

[JackMDS]

May be this can Help, http://www.ezlan.net/net_speed.html

And this, http://www.ezlan.net/faq#transfer

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[perdomot]

Thanks, those were very helpful. Looks like my transfer rate is around 80Mbps which is where its supposed to be and according to that site, Gigabit ethernet doesnt deliver more than a 25% improvement right now. I do have a firewire card in each PC so I was thinking of just hooking up a cable and transfering via firewire. Would this work and is there anything special I need to do or do I just hook up the cable and turn on the PC?

 

[JackMDS]

Bind the Firewire's TCP/IP Connection to File Sharing and it would be like regular Network.

Otherwise take into consideration Firewire is restricted to short Cable (about 15').

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