Ethernet connection speeds

[Furyus]

Hey guys, I currently have 2 PCs connected to the router via Ethernet cable (cat6) the router is a Asus RT-68u, I'm trying to copy some files (170gb) across and currently only getting around 30mbps. any way of increasing this? or is something going wrong along the line? the cables are straight into the router, No powerlines or anything.

 

[AStaley]

Have you checked both network cards to see if they are connected at Gigabit/Full Duplex? You could also try powering both PC's off, remove power and push release the power button. Then start the transfer again.

Beyond that, are you transferring lots of small files, or larger files? I assume you are copying direct to hard drive and not some USB device attached to the other PC?

 

[Sighn]

By 30Mb/s, you mean 3.75MB/s?
I wonder about the quality of the cables especially if any one of them is long.
Does the router support gigabit ethernet connections?
Do both computer's network interfaces support it?

 

[bledd]

What speed are the hard drives? Tried it with AV turned off in both machines?
Small files or large files? (large files copy quicker)

 

[jfish]

to see if the bottleneck of the disk I/O are not the reason for slow speeds, use iperf to perform a bandwidth test - iperf generated random data in memory. You can set it to transfer 170GB of data.

 

[Luke_Bowman]

If 30mb/s is actually MB and not Mbit's then I wouldn't say it's too bad?

 

[bledd]

That's awful file transfer speed. Unless there's a USB2 hard drive involved, in that case, that's the limiting factor.