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Braden Jeffrey

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I am running a home server on a 100mbit ethernet connection. The server is running xp and all drives are external HDDs. 1 Brand New and the other 2 years old. The max speed I can get to my windows 7 notebok is 6mbps. What can I do to improve this.

I have turned of QOS
 
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Both External HDDs are cpnnected on seperate USB 2.0 jacks. The newer drive is USB 3.0 but backwards compatible with usb 2.0. The older drive is a Seagate and is primarily used for backups and the newer drive is a Western Digital used for everything from videos to documents.
 
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first, lets clarify if the speed you are getting currently is 6 megabits, or 6 megabytes. There's a difference here which often gets confused. What it is coming down to though is your hard drives being connected through USB 2.0. That is the slowest link in your chain, as a USB connected hard drive is going to be very slow at pulling data through, and thus your entire path is bottle-necked at that speed.
 
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Braden Jeffrey

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When I connect the drives directly to my laptop on a USB 2.0 port I get atleast 30 Megabytes per second and it is 6 Megabytes.

 
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Different computers are going to be able to pull data at different speeds through USB 2.0 sometimes just depending upon the hardware and operating system alone. Even still, 6 MB/s is pretty slow transfer speed but not too absurd on 100 megabit connection. The theoretical maximum of a 100 megabit connection is only 12 MB/s, so given that there will be some loss due to connection latency, distance, and the amount of time it takes for the source computer to move read data through the USB 2.0 port from the external hard drive, to memory, to the NIC, across the network, through whatever network devices you might have til it reaches the end device.

Does your network run through a basic switch or a router of some sort? It's possible you are experiencing a slowdown at the router itself as packets are inspected and sent on. Most good switches or routers will not impact the switching speed or switching capacity much, but cheap ones will not be able to even offer the full switching speed that they are rated for (such as 10/100 or gigabit.)
 
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Braden Jeffrey

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Just to experiment I connected my Laptop via Ethernet (100mbit) and I am getting 11.4mbps. It appears that it is something with the wireless connetion. The server is connected via ethernet at all times. Just as a side note I have a Netgear MBRN3000.
 
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Nowhere in the tech notes from Netgear or anywhere else can I find information on the wireless transfer speed throughput for that router, so I wouldn't be surprised with it being a basic router if it was only 54 Mbps, which would give you at best 6.75 megabytes per second of throughput. So that is your issue.
 
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On the box and in the web interface it says it can do up to 300MBPS, I am looking at upgrading the router soon anyway.
 
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