Meinrad Disalan :
so how much speed can i get? I have a cat 5 tested with it and it is jus 11mbps transfer rate, and im planning to get cat6e to improve my speed for a little bit. so what speed can i get? thanks
Are you sure that's Mbps? Theoretical max for 100 Mbps ethernet is 100 mega
BITS per second, which translates into 12.5 mega
BYTES per second (minus a small amount for ethernet overhead).
Your measured 11 would be the expected speed if it's 11 MB/s, not 11 Mbps. Contrary to the thinking of most young people, proper punctuation matters for this stuff.
A Gigabit switch would be 10x faster (1000 Mbps or 125 MB/s), assuming the ethernet connections on both devices are Gigabit-capable. It's often capped by HDD speed (HDDs can only hit 125+ MB/s for large files stored on their outermost tracks), or by the software doing the file transfer (Windows file sharing optimized for a multi-user environment instead of single file transfers often have trouble hitting 100 MB/s).