Why is my home LAN so slow? (want full 100mbit)

[idea]

I have a Netgear MR814 10/100 router, and 2 boxes with 10/100 nics. Why does my lan max out at 10mbit?? Am I missing something?

 

[JackMDS]

What do you mean 10mb/sec.?

How and what are you using to measure?.

 

[idea]

I'm using an FTP connection to measure, it maxes out at a little over 1000KBps (or 10mbit). I want it to be a full 100mbit (or about 13,000KBps)

 

[ScottMac]

Tell us about your cabling .... Did you do it yourself?

First place to look ... start at layer one and work up ...

Scott

 

[idea]

Honestly the cables were just extra cables I had lying around, I acquired them over time. Is there such thing as 10/100 cables?

 

[skyking]

no, there are improperly paired cables, which will cripple your network. It will work, good enough to fool you into looking elsewhere for your problem.

 

[idea]

I'm gonna buy myself a set of new ethernet cables this weekend, let's see what happens

 

[wjsulliv]

Remember that 10, 100 and 1000 were theoretical maximums. I.e. under perfect conditions you will achieve these speeds, but most of us don't live in a static lab setting with perfect conditions.

You should get more than 10, but if your cards are 10/100, you will probubly not reach 100. I would expect speeds around the 60-70 mark at best.

For file transfer between machines and gaming, on the local network this is important. For things like DSL/Cable/High Speed it doesn't matter because the high speed comes in at a speed slower than 10.

 

[helppls]

if you have realtek cards in the mix, don't expect anything better then 5mb/s

 

[azev]

I've got about 9-10MB on my network with various brand of switches, NICs, and gigabit stuff.
Gigabit to Gigabit transfer yeald up to 45MB.