Increase File Transfer Speed Over The Network

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Okay, so this is my topology at home:

>>PLDT Consumer Sh*tty Modem Router (Not really customizable, meant for non-technical users who want their internet up and running after a plug and play session from technicians)
>>Cisco E1200v2 (main router that provides the connectivity to all users at home)
>>My Debian File Server (used Samba, has a 2tb hard drive, has a spare PCI-E slot I can jack in for PCI-E based LAN cards)
>>My desktop(connected to the Cisco E1200 via USB Wifi Adapter), dad's laptop, smartphones, mac book air, iphone

PLDT Consumer Sh*tty Modem Router acts as DMZ and its wireless setting is off because this hardware is not meant for those who want to tinker with settings so it can't be run in bridged mode being transparent in the network and hand off the public ip address off to the main router(Cisco E1200)'s WAN port, so it just acts as my Cisco E1200's gateway to the internet.

I flashed my Cisco E1200's firmware with Tomato(DD-WRT previously)

So the connections are:
PLDT Consumer Sh*tty Modem Router(LAN port) >> Cisco E1200 (WAN port)>> All end devices (Wireless) | Debian File Server (Ethernet)

I was wondering if there is any way I could increase my LAN transfer speed when copying things to the file server and back (tops at 11MBps only). And also when streaming movies from the file server too.

Any suggestion from the community is greatly appreciated! :)
 
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The processor speed in your router in general does not affect traffic going lan to lan. In most routers...I am too lazy to look yours up...there is a small switch chip that runs the lan ports. If your traffic is only going between the lan ports it only uses this chip it does not pass traffic to the main processors. In general the chip is most routers is the same as the one you find in small switches. These chips are designed to only switch traffic do not delay the traffic in most cases.

You problem is purely that you can only get 100mbit between the ports. And it you are getting those rates when you allow for the overhead in data transfer.

As mentioned a small gig switch will solve your issues. You could buy another...
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Apologies for double-post.

https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Linksys_E1200_v2

It is a 10/100 device on the wired side. Upgrade to GB and wired all round for best speeds. A GB wired, grown-up wifi router will make a lesser, but potentially good improvement also (depending on range, signal strength)
 
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whoops, sorry forgot to include in the detail that I do have fast ethernet and wireless N at best in our environment (all wireless devices at home support N and AC, last time i checked no one has devices that is stuck at G or older standards), and I can pretty much tell that there is no channel interference because we are the only ones in our subdivision who has a wireless router last time I checked, when I do a scan only one SSID from my neighbor pops up but is on a different channel. So only 2 access point from where I live, not even sure if it is indeed an access point because pocket wifi bricks are popular here from where I am.
 
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11 MegaBytes / second is the max speed of a 10/100 Megabit wired link (the ports on the back of your Cisco the server is plugged into). You'll need a gigabit wired connection to the server + a faster than 100Mbit wifi connection to go faster.
 
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there are times where it dips to 2MB/s though, i was wondering if there is anything i can do to maximize everything despite my fast ethernet and wireless N environment, like enabling jumbo frames and what-not :??:
 
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file transfer is also dependent on the cisco e1200's processor speed right? kind of like here at work where we have pfsense running in a system unit, and according to the pfsense pdf that i do have, to achieve 200Mbps you need to have a processor speed of 1 ghz, 400-500Mbps for 2-3 ghz and so on since the router is the gateway and allows the session between 2 end devices communicating on the network in a non-adhoc manner. I was thinking about buying a new router that acts as a modem at the same time since i cant do proper port forwarding in my current setup because the pldt router cannot be set to bridged mode, but it will still bottleneck my gigabit router in an environment where i have wireless N devices and the debian file server just having fast ethernet on it right?
 
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If you want to speed up LAN to LAN copies, just place a 1Gb switch in front of your router/firewall so the file copies don't go through the 100Mb integrated switch. Of course you can't go faster than this for anything that has to go through the firewall.
 
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The processor speed in your router in general does not affect traffic going lan to lan. In most routers...I am too lazy to look yours up...there is a small switch chip that runs the lan ports. If your traffic is only going between the lan ports it only uses this chip it does not pass traffic to the main processors. In general the chip is most routers is the same as the one you find in small switches. These chips are designed to only switch traffic do not delay the traffic in most cases.

You problem is purely that you can only get 100mbit between the ports. And it you are getting those rates when you allow for the overhead in data transfer.

As mentioned a small gig switch will solve your issues. You could buy another router with lan ports but in effect you will only use the switching chip in that router so the processor speed does not matter all that much.

Now if you go lan-wan then the router processor speed makes huge difference.
 
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