Local Network Transfer Killing Internet Speed

[Caged]

I'm confused why you have a device connected to your network that you are shifting data around that is only linked up at 100Mb. That would be painful to use.

 

[ChrisD.]

Only just spotted the 100 Mbps NIC.

Time to go 2.5 or 10 Gbps surely.

 

[dlockers]

I'm confused why you have a device connected to your network that you are shifting data around that is only linked up at 100Mb. That would be painful to use.

Ironically it's a one off use case. It's an old Dell Optiplex media server. 100mb is perfectly fine and generally I'll download on the server itself. It also seems to happily saturate 100Mb/sec somehow. When I go 'home home' I'll see if I have a spare NIC.

Only just spotted the 100 Mbps NIC.

Time to go 2.5 or 10 Gbps surely.

Don't get me started lol. I've got CAT6 to every corner downstairs but in all honestly I don't even need 10/100 for my current use cases. If you check my thread history I did post when I retired my highly complex ZFS file server as it was just not being used...and I forgot most of the knowledge needed to maintain it, lol.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Really silly question (given I am an [expired] CCNP) .

If you can’t fix this issue your expired ccnp means nowt.

Problem "solved" - I swapped out the cheapo (£9, lol) TP Link switch for a Zyxel. I'm transferring 2gb at 100MB/s and the latency to the router has only kicked up a fraction (1ms -> 60ms).

Guess you are now a certified ccnp again.

 

[ChrisD.]

Don't get me started lol. I've got CAT6 to every corner downstairs but in all honestly I don't even need 10/100 for my current use cases. If you check my thread history I did post when I retired my highly complex ZFS file server as it was just not being used...and I forgot most of the knowledge needed to maintain it, lol.

You can get a cheap £10 or so 1 Gbps Broadcom NIC from eBay.