Speed question across LAN

[de8212]

Copying almost 1GB of pics/vids over to another PC takes about 15 minutes. Vista shows the speed at ~ 1.12MB/sec. Does that sound about right?

It's going from my pc (vista ult.) to a router and then to an older pc (xp pro) that I'm pretty sure has only a 10/100 card in it.

It just seems it should be a bit faster than this.

 

[NickOlsen8390]

thats a little slow. The max of 10/100 is going to be 12.5MB/s the max of Gigabit is going to be 125MB/s
I'm sure other will ring in on what to do since it is so slow.

 

[de8212]

thanks for at least confirming it Nick.

I know my pc is gigabit and the router is as well. My wife's pc is an older dell that is 10/100 but I haven't transferred anyhting to hers in a while. I just had the feeling that it should go alot faster than it did.

Oh, I forgot one important fact.

It is transferring to a USB external hard drive connected to her pc. WOuld that slow down the transfer?

 

[JackMDS]

http://www.ezlan.net/net_speed.html

 

[de8212]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
http://www.ezlan.net/net_speed.html

I guess looking at that link I would be somewhere in this area.

Wired 100Mb/sec. Yields 60-80Mb/sec. (7-10MB/sec.)


Unless the external USB is part of the issue.

Still doesn't tell me what the issue might be.

 

[Eug]

Originally posted by: de8212
thanks for at least confirming it Nick.

I know my pc is gigabit and the router is as well. My wife's pc is an older dell that is 10/100 but I haven't transferred anyhting to hers in a while. I just had the feeling that it should go alot faster than it did.

Oh, I forgot one important fact.

It is transferring to a USB external hard drive connected to her pc. WOuld that slow down the transfer?

USB 2 or USB 1.1?

Cuz that speed is about right for USB 1.1.

 

[de8212]

Originally posted by: Eug

Originally posted by: de8212
thanks for at least confirming it Nick.

I know my pc is gigabit and the router is as well. My wife's pc is an older dell that is 10/100 but I haven't transferred anyhting to hers in a while. I just had the feeling that it should go alot faster than it did.

Oh, I forgot one important fact.

It is transferring to a USB external hard drive connected to her pc. WOuld that slow down the transfer?

USB 2 or USB 1.1?

Cuz that speed is about right for USB 1.1.

Good question. I think it is 2.0 but I'll have to get into it later to make sure. I'm hoping that is all it is and no other issues. I may try transferring the same folder to her hard drivelater and see what that does.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: de8212

Unless the external USB is part of the issue.

Still doesn't tell me what the issue might be.

When nothing is disclosed beside a "cry"," I have a problem", it is hard to offer any solution.

Some people like the Trial and error approach, I personally do not.

But hey it is my fault that I did not use my TeleMeta Congnition skills to know that you have a USB NIC.

 

[Jamsan]

Originally posted by: JackMDS

Originally posted by: de8212

Unless the external USB is part of the issue.

Still doesn't tell me what the issue might be.

When nothing is disclosed beside a "cry"," I have a problem", it is hard to offer any solution.

Some people like the Trial and error approach, I personally do not.

But hey it is my fault that I did not use my TeleMeta Congnition skills to know that you have a USB NIC.

He doesn't. The file is being written to an external USB drive.