I am transferring large gb files over my network from my laptop to a PC i have converted into a media server. It is slow at about 90Mbps (12MB/s). I am ripping my blu ray movies on my laptop (only blu ray drive I have) and then transferring it drag and drop style over to the media server. Both computers have gigabit nic cards. Both set to Full Duplex 1Gbps. Everything is hard wired in with gigabit switches and cat 5e cable.
My network comes in to a modem to a router (Netgear WNDR3800CH which is also a gigabit router if I am not mistaken) from there it goes to a Switch (Netgear Gs608NaV4). Attached to that switch is my media server. From that switch I go to another switch in another part of my house (Cisco 8 Port SG110D08NA) and connected to that is my laptop gaming devices, smart tv, etc. .
As I said before I am generally getting 12MB/s. I am not sure why this is. I have tried checking cables and those are fine. I tried changing out switches. I changed out my Netgear GS608 with a GS605. For a little while (maybe 2-3 test transfers) I will get 75 MB/s. Then it will slowly drop down and eventually get back down to the 20 MB/s range. Then when I do the test again it will only be in the 12MB/s range. Then I change out the switch again and same thing. Works for a few times and then goes back to being slow. both
computers are running windows 7. Thanks
*UPDATE*
I just did an IPERF test and my network speeds were 971 Mbps (121 MB/s). So possibly the bottleneck would probably be my hard drives? I have two 6tb drives. A WD Red 6TB 5400 RPM drive and a WD Red 6tb 7200RPM drive. I have both drives running RAID. obviously the slower drive is going to be the main when it comes to power and running. But still I would think this would give me in the range of 50MB/s - 70MB/s. Not 12MB/s.
My network comes in to a modem to a router (Netgear WNDR3800CH which is also a gigabit router if I am not mistaken) from there it goes to a Switch (Netgear Gs608NaV4). Attached to that switch is my media server. From that switch I go to another switch in another part of my house (Cisco 8 Port SG110D08NA) and connected to that is my laptop gaming devices, smart tv, etc. .
As I said before I am generally getting 12MB/s. I am not sure why this is. I have tried checking cables and those are fine. I tried changing out switches. I changed out my Netgear GS608 with a GS605. For a little while (maybe 2-3 test transfers) I will get 75 MB/s. Then it will slowly drop down and eventually get back down to the 20 MB/s range. Then when I do the test again it will only be in the 12MB/s range. Then I change out the switch again and same thing. Works for a few times and then goes back to being slow. both
computers are running windows 7. Thanks
*UPDATE*
I just did an IPERF test and my network speeds were 971 Mbps (121 MB/s). So possibly the bottleneck would probably be my hard drives? I have two 6tb drives. A WD Red 6TB 5400 RPM drive and a WD Red 6tb 7200RPM drive. I have both drives running RAID. obviously the slower drive is going to be the main when it comes to power and running. But still I would think this would give me in the range of 50MB/s - 70MB/s. Not 12MB/s.
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