Gigabit NIC transfers

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zotexa

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hey guys,

on my network I have my main PC running 7 ultimate and an XP machine running XP professional which is used to host IRC and download torrents. They're both connected to an Edimax ES-3124RL 10/100M Ethernet switch. I set up a shared drive on the XP machine to transfer downloads over from but with it being 10/100m the transfer speeds max out at 12.5MB (note that I'm on an ADSL connection which can do a max of 8MB hence why I got the 10/100m switch).

I was thinking I could buy two gigabit networks cards and connect them from the main PC to the XP PC and transfer files that way to speed things up, but would it work with them being on the same network already?

Any help is appreciated, cheers :)
 
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That's the idea yes. If you have any questions relating to specifics of how you'd do the network post them up, but at a high level you have the right idea.
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You mean bridge from the XP machine to the 7 machine right?

I read that I can assign the NICs their own IP's that would put them in a different subnet and use that to map the network drive thus doing all the transfers on the NIC's rather than the home network. Is this right or am I missing something? Cheers
 
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That's the idea yes. If you have any questions relating to specifics of how you'd do the network post them up, but at a high level you have the right idea.
 
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I should be able to figure it out but if I can't I'll post again, thanks for the help!:)

 
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alrighty back again. I realised my XP machine didn't have compatibility for an internal NIC ie PCIE so I got a USB2.0 to Gigabit ethernet adapter and while it's not gigabit USB 2.0's max speed is 460megabits so I should get roughly 57.5mb transfers. I have a Intel Pro 1000/PT NIC in my desktop, set the NIC ip to 192.170.0.1 for the Intel and 192.170.0.2 for the USB NIC and set up the network location via \\192.170.0.2\Downloads on the 7 machine.

If I disable the Intel NIC I cannot access the folder so I know it's only being shared between the two NIC's and not through my switch/main connection. Problem is I've tried transferring files back and forth and at the start it'll say 21MB/second before swiftly dropping down to 13MB/s at the highest and 11/MB/s average which is still roughly the same as what I was getting without the NICs through the switch.

Am I missing something? Cheers.



 
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