Improving file transfer speed?

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My main rig and fileserver are linked thru a 100Mbps link. I normally use windows filesharing to browse and transfer files, but recently it has been getting slow.

It took almost an hour to copy 7 gigs over, and when I looked in task manager, it was only using around 15% network bandwidth.

Is there any way of improving speeds at all? Maybe use FTP software instead?
 
Ok, I'll give FTP a bash.

I'm not really sure what jumbo frames are, but I'll have a look into it. I'm going thru a router also - I guess this might slow things down a little?

Also, my fileserver is running a firewall and AV - I guess this could also lead to a slow down?
 
Well, I'm copying froms over FROM the FTP right now... My fileserver is also using RAID5, so I'm used to the write speed being slow. :(

I've remote desktop'ed into my fileserver, and my CPU is maxxed. 50% or so is filezilla FTP server (tranferring files two by two), 25% is being used by "cpf.exe" (comodo firewall), and 10% is by utorrent, and the rest is by other things.

I'm guessing the CPU is causing a bottleneck here, as I have seen much faster file transferrs in the past.... I'll try it again later with nothing running apart from the FTP app and see what speeds I get. :)
 
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