Soldato
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I bought a gigabit switch a few months ago to boost the speed of transfers across the network.
When transferring movies or whatever the speed would be around 6Mbps before hand. When I hooked up the new kit... It went right up to 35Mbps or so for a while.
Recently though, it's dropped to 12Mbps. I thought this might have something to do with the cable connecting the switch to the router. Which is a cat5 cable. I just bought a cat6 cable and hoped this would solve the problem. It hasn't unfortunately.|
So The setup is as follows.
Desktop A connects to the switch via a cat6 cable, switch connects to router via cat6 cable.
Desktop B is connected to the switch via cat6.
Both PC's have a Gigabit NIC. I've no idea why I would experience slow transfer speeds?
Anyone?
Cheers.
Major Edit::::
Just realised some other idiot in the household was cleaning, unplugged everything and when putting back together plugged the lan cable directly into the router rather than the switch, which would have course explain the 100Mbps speeds. Oh dear!
At least it's all sorted!
When transferring movies or whatever the speed would be around 6Mbps before hand. When I hooked up the new kit... It went right up to 35Mbps or so for a while.
Recently though, it's dropped to 12Mbps. I thought this might have something to do with the cable connecting the switch to the router. Which is a cat5 cable. I just bought a cat6 cable and hoped this would solve the problem. It hasn't unfortunately.|
So The setup is as follows.
Desktop A connects to the switch via a cat6 cable, switch connects to router via cat6 cable.
Desktop B is connected to the switch via cat6.
Both PC's have a Gigabit NIC. I've no idea why I would experience slow transfer speeds?
Anyone?
Cheers.
Major Edit::::
Just realised some other idiot in the household was cleaning, unplugged everything and when putting back together plugged the lan cable directly into the router rather than the switch, which would have course explain the 100Mbps speeds. Oh dear!
At least it's all sorted!
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