I am currently a bit frustrated with my network speed as I seem to max out at 2 MB/s.
I would like any and all suggestions to improve this speed. Specifically I have a raspberry pi with an external hard drive connected via usb that is acting as a shared drive for all the other devices in the house. I realize that I will be limited to USB 2.0 speeds as a result of this since the raspberry pi does not have usb 3.0 capabilities but currently it is taking me 40 minutes to copy a mere 6 gigs and I know there is lots of room for improvement even with usb 2.0 speeds.
My current network setup:
cable modem which is connected to a Linksys WRT54G router. (Shows 54 mbps) Router connects to a few devices and also has a cable going up to a switch on the 2nd floor. (Steren SWI-005 switch) From that switch I have wired connections going to both the raspberry pi (running Retropie) and my main desktop computer running Windows 10.
Will replacing my router speed up the transfer between my main desktop and an external drive on the raspberry pi? With all the conversions between MB/s and mbps etc I find it hard to determine where the bottleneck is. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I have the same speed limitations when copying to the micro SD card on the Pi - not just the external drive.
I would like any and all suggestions to improve this speed. Specifically I have a raspberry pi with an external hard drive connected via usb that is acting as a shared drive for all the other devices in the house. I realize that I will be limited to USB 2.0 speeds as a result of this since the raspberry pi does not have usb 3.0 capabilities but currently it is taking me 40 minutes to copy a mere 6 gigs and I know there is lots of room for improvement even with usb 2.0 speeds.
My current network setup:
cable modem which is connected to a Linksys WRT54G router. (Shows 54 mbps) Router connects to a few devices and also has a cable going up to a switch on the 2nd floor. (Steren SWI-005 switch) From that switch I have wired connections going to both the raspberry pi (running Retropie) and my main desktop computer running Windows 10.
Will replacing my router speed up the transfer between my main desktop and an external drive on the raspberry pi? With all the conversions between MB/s and mbps etc I find it hard to determine where the bottleneck is. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I have the same speed limitations when copying to the micro SD card on the Pi - not just the external drive.
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