What program is fastest for sending large files over an ethernet network?

[Krk3561]

Windows seems to be too slow for sending large files between computers. What program is easy to use and fastest for sending large files over an ethernet network? Thanks

 

[WannaFly]

What do you consider "slow", a 100Mb/s network has max transfer rate of 12.5MB/s - and usually you cannot get that due to the hardware you have.

 

[Krk3561]

Someone told me at a lan party that sending files through a program (ftp? I cant remember what it was that they used) is faster than using windows.

 

[WannaFly]

Its possible, using a LOCAL FTP server *COULD* be faster then transferring files through windows networking. But, as I said, you not gonna send or recieve more then your NIC can push out.

 

[igowerf]

We've reached about 9 or 10 MB/sec using FTP on a 10/100 network. We've gotten a 10 or 11 MB/sec on a Firewire network, but I think my laptop harddrive was the bottleneck. 🙂

 

[BFG10K]

Windows seems to be too slow for sending large files between computers

Are you using an NT based OS on the workstations? If so that should not be the case.

Try disabling background programs, virus scanners, system tray icons, etc.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I think the issue here is that SMB is slow, SMB is a pretty whack-ass protocol but I don't know if it would cause a noticeable performance hit on a 100mbit network. FWIW I just use ftp for transferring big batches of files on a lan. If it's something that won't take too long, I just scp it.

 

[Mavrick007]

I've transferred files at 8-9megs/sec over a network and then awhile later a new download only got about
2-3megs/sec cause of the hard drive it was coming from. It depends on alot of factors.

I have a little utility called DU Meter that allows you to see the speed of all of your downloads/uploads.
It's pretty useful.