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Makes sense. And yes, I agree that the Pro1000s are damn nice cards. I've been meaning to get hold of some for a while myself.
Gigabit LAN?
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Those kinds of problems 9/10 times are badly coded 64bit drivers.
As for vista I was referring to the documented cases of slow file transfers using shares that run much faster over FTP. I doubt greatly that it's a hardware issue as in order for a NIC to be "gigabit" it needs to comply with various hardware standards which pretty much ensures you'll get more than he's getting. The only bit not governed by the ethernet standard is the drivers and OS compatability.
As for vista I was referring to the documented cases of slow file transfers using shares that run much faster over FTP. I doubt greatly that it's a hardware issue as in order for a NIC to be "gigabit" it needs to comply with various hardware standards which pretty much ensures you'll get more than he's getting. The only bit not governed by the ethernet standard is the drivers and OS compatability.
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In Vista you can try turning off the remote compression in control panel. I used to get terrible performance before doing this.
Later on today i will be testing a big transfer between my PC and My laptops 1Gbps port. First try will be from vista to xp, second will be from vista to ubuntu as my laptop has duel boot. That should hopefully let me see if the problem has anything to do with OS or not.
The ones on ebay, well ones that I've seen have been the DG834GTs, sky may have updated their newest ones.
Also, the router doesn't have GB networking, I might not have made it very clear, but I was talking about having a separate router and network switch. I've got a DG834GT and a Netgear 5 port GB switch on my desktop. I actually prefer having a separate switch for the computers and a router for the internet because I can turn one of them off without losing the other.
Like I can turn my router off or restart it without affecting any media I might be streaming over my network to other computers in the house, or turn the GB switch off without affecting anything using wifi.
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Ahhh get ya. I was going for that option when i thought i didn't wanna slash out £80+ for a decent GB cable router.
I will invest in a GB switch so i can transfer my data to and from for my NAS Drive.
I will invest in a GB switch so i can transfer my data to and from for my NAS Drive.
I was passing a local computer shop today so I popped in and all they had was TP-Link Gigabit switch, only £20 so I got it.
Just tried it and now transfer speeds are 20mb, not as good as I had hoped but still twice as fast. I'll read through the posts here to see if anyone has suggested anything.
Just tried it and now transfer speeds are 20mb, not as good as I had hoped but still twice as fast. I'll read through the posts here to see if anyone has suggested anything.
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Fast hard drives and RAID arrays. My Array shofts 130MB/s sustained which almost saturates my LAN backbone
But not enough to buy a managed switch and make load balancing trunks. Though if I were to start HD streaming once my home server is built then steps may need to be taken.