Just installed a home network - Stuck at 10/100 for file transfers

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That is my current set up. I'm quite new to the whole home network scene to be honest. I think the problem is the router because I have ran a lan speed test on the ports in the rooms as well as directly from the router itself, they are almost identical on both ends. The file transfer speed is around 76 Mbps up and 72 Mbps down. That leads me to believe I'm stuck at base100, but I don't know what I'm missing or if I just need a smart router to handle the ip exchanges from the modem.

From what I understand, currently all of my traffic has to filter through the router to the other computer, rather than going from one computer to the other. If this is true, how can I achieve this?
 
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Bottlenecks in transfer of data from source one to source two can be created by several things:

1) Hard drives - the best transfer would be SSD to SSD, as it would have the highest available transfer rates.
2) Wi-Fi connections - the wired connection will always be faster.
3) Computer utilization - this can be anything from programs running to anti-virus, indexing, etc....
4) Networking component utilization (i.e. switches, routers, modems, etc).

Network switches do a good job of connecting devices to transfer data, but if other processes are going on (i.e. someone watching Netflix on a PC while you are trying to transfer data) the network can be slowed.

If you want to get the ideal test - power down all devices on the network...
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How are you measuring your speeds? File transfer between PC's? If so then Windows should be displaying the speed in MB/s or megabytes, if so then 75MB/s is about right. If not make sure that all PC's are uplinking at 1Gbps.
 
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Most of the items in the house are hard wired (smart tv, computers, etc.), but phones, tablets, guests, etc. all use wireless.
 
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I'm using sing Totusoft's "Lan Speed Test" application, and the speed is set to display in Mbps, not MBps.
 
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The color of the LEDs on the switch should tell you if you a gigabit link. See page 3 of the Installation Guide. If you don't have gigabit link, then it could be the quality of the wiring. Did you terminate the cables? Do you have any kind of verification that they are actually up to cat 6 spec installation?
 
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If you read the image posted backwards, that's how it's all connected. I will attempt to put that image into words.

The computers are connected to the wall jacks I installed in the rooms. Those cables run downstairs to the "server room" and connect to the patch panel, the patch panel is connected to the switch, the first port on the switch gets internet from the router, in which the switch talks to the router to pull new IPs for all of the other ports on the switch. So any information, from my understanding, has to pass through the router to the other computer.
 
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I will have to confirm tonight when I get home, but I am almost 100% sure they were green, but I did not check while a transfer was in progress.

I did terminate everything, from the jacks to the patch cables, unfortunately I do not have any verification equipment to ensure cat6 spec, but I have tested a number of the connection points throughout the house and they all read about the same, no wild connection speeds.
 
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It is unlikely that the color of the LED on the switch would change during a transfer (or network test). If you have GREEN LEDs then you should be capable of gigiabit. Gigabit speeds (typically 700mbit or less) would be memory to memory. You need to be sure that you are configuring the test tool to NOT use disks on either end. Using a disk will limit your speeds to much closer to 100mbit.
 
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The longest run is 32 ft. and some change.

I can confirm my Mac Pro has a 10/100/1000 NIC, while the test laptop (2012 Toshiba Satellite) i cannot be 100% sure it has a 10/100/1000 NIC until I check to night. From the specs I looked at online at a similar styled laptop, it should have a 10/100/1000 NIC.

EDIT: After looking to the laptop more, it only supports 10/100.... I don't have any other computers to run a proper lan speed test to get some numbers.

I know there has to be some issue, whether it's wiring, router, etc. I'm still having some 1080p movie streaming issues, stuttering // buffering. Until I get a hold of a laptop or another computer that has gigabit capabilities, I don't know if I can proceed further.
 
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If you only have the two computers and since the one is only 10/100 the max it and transfer is 100 mbps. With the streaming what are you streaming from and what device are you streaming to?
 
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I was able to borrow a MacBook Pro this weekend and do some testing. I am pulling 816 Mb/s (102 MB/s) Read / download, while the Upload / write speed was around 62-72 Mb/s. Does that sound about right?

As for the stuttering / buffering issues, it seems to be device / application based...
I have Plex on my smart tv and it will buffer and stutter, if I play it directly from the network via the tv connection it runs fine. I also tried it with my testing laptop, directly from the shared folder and it stuttered there. So I'm not sure what is going on.
 
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Bottlenecks in transfer of data from source one to source two can be created by several things:

1) Hard drives - the best transfer would be SSD to SSD, as it would have the highest available transfer rates.
2) Wi-Fi connections - the wired connection will always be faster.
3) Computer utilization - this can be anything from programs running to anti-virus, indexing, etc....
4) Networking component utilization (i.e. switches, routers, modems, etc).

Network switches do a good job of connecting devices to transfer data, but if other processes are going on (i.e. someone watching Netflix on a PC while you are trying to transfer data) the network can be slowed.

If you want to get the ideal test - power down all devices on the network except the two devices that you are testing on. Make sure that no processes are going, and transfer data from a SSD on one device to a SSD on the second device.
 
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