What kind of speeds should I see?

[aken909]

I bought this wired switch http://www.microcenter.com/sin...tml?product_id=0298448 I am getting about 15 megabytes per second give or take 1 MBps.

I have cat5e cable, but its pretty old and beat up and its a 50 foot length.

Shouldn't I be getting faster throughput? Something around 120 megabytes per second?

I don't have a problem with getting new cable but what should I be expecting in terms of megabytes per second with this switch?

And when/if I get new cable should I get cat6 or just 5e? The next cable will only be able 20 feet.

Thanks

 

[aken909]

Haha silly me the drive I copied the file from was a usb drive... when I went from an actual hard drive I was getting about 50 megabytes per second. But still that seems about half what it should be so the question still stands do I need a new cable?

Also does anyone know of a good network testing tool?

 

[Tommouse]

Cat5e is capable of 1Gbps, perhaps if your cable is faulty you're getting intermittent packet loss resulting in a lot of retransmits, which will beat on your speeds. But I would think it would be more of an all/nothing if you had a damaged cable. But a cable is all of a few bucks, so ... meh, give it a go and see.

Also, if you have an old/slow HD, that may be your weak point.

 

[Aharami]

how do you see exactly what throughput you're getting? Is there an utility for that?

 

[azev]

you can use networx its pretty cool opensource graphing tool and keep track of your bandwidth usage as well.

 

[aken909]

I can see because I am using Windows 7 and it shows transfer speeds when you move a file, pretty nice feature actually.

 

[aken909]

Well I think I may have solved my problem.
I changed the jumbo frame to 9k and forced my network devices to 1000 full duplex now I am getting 80-90 MBps

Thanks for the help guys