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Afternoon. I have an Apple Time Capsule (4th Generation) with two Mac Computers plus my PC connected to it.

I seem to only be getting a maximum computer-to-computer speed of 10MB/s which is significantly lower than I expected. I was wondering if there may be any particular reason for this?

The speed is the same regardless of which direction I am transferring files.

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What was I expecting, good question... I don't know really but I just thought it seemed quite slow. We're just about to get 120meg broadband so will be expecting 12MB/s download speeds and would have assumed that my local connection would be much faster than that?

Perhaps I just assumed that the transfer rate of files between computers on a local network would be much faster?
 
Depends how quick the switch/router is, if its 100mbit then that's the right speed.
 
The two computers I am transferring files between are both connected via an ethernet cable into the back of the Time Capsule.
 
So using the Time Capsule as the network switch? That's got Gigabit ethernet on it so are the Macs running gigabit?
 
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wndzr said:
We're just about to get 120meg broadband so will be expecting 12MB/s download speeds and would have assumed that my local connection would be much faster than that?
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If that's with VM the Superhub has a Gigabit switch, I think.
 
I've never used a time capsule, but does it have a screen you can log into to see what speed it's connected at?

Your PC will report what speed it's connected at in Windows.

Will either be 100 or 1000, 1000 = Gigabit.

Test each cable between the PC and the time capsule, if any of them report as 100, then replace that cable.
100 = 12.5MB/s max (nearer 12MB/s in real world)
1000 = 125MB/s max (nearer 120MB/s in real world)
 
Just had another thought - what sort of size of files are we talking here? If it's a lot of small files it'll go slower than a small number of big ones.
 
bledd. said:
I've never used a time capsule, but does it have a screen you can log into to see what speed it's connected at?

Your PC will report what speed it's connected at in Windows.

Will either be 100 or 1000, 1000 = Gigabit.

Test each cable between the PC and the time capsule, if any of them report as 100, then replace that cable.
100 = 12.5MB/s max (nearer 12MB/s in real world)
1000 = 125MB/s max (nearer 120MB/s in real world)
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I've had a look in Windows and it shows 100 as the speed. I'm not entirely sure how to change it. I've had a look around the (very limited) settings for the time capsule but don't seem to see anything that suggests changing the speed.

rpstewart said:
Just had another thought - what sort of size of files are we talking here? If it's a lot of small files it'll go slower than a small number of big ones.
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These are all really big files, not small ones.
 
If all your hardware is gigabit and it's not running at gigabit then you just need better cables.

Replace them with cat5e ethernet cables (or cat6 : more expensive but more future proof)
 
I've just had a quick look at my cable and the leaving the iMac and going into the TC is CAT5E but the one going from my PC to the TC is CAT5 - would this mean the maximum speed for the CAT5 cable is 10MB/s?
 
Yup, they're so cheap though, I'd just replace the lot.

In the meantime, test a cat5e between your pc and the time machine
 
My new CAT6 cables have arrived and transfer speed is literally 10x better!

Thank you guys :-)

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