network cables and gigabit routers

beastman

beastman

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Bit of newbie question - got a NAS-221 and wondering if my bog standard ethernet cables aren't helping. I know file transferring is going to be painfully slow but I have a gigabit router and wondering if faster cables will speed things up or is it not really going to much a significant difference?

thanks
 
cat 5-e or cat6 = happy times with gigabit. Anything less and it won't be rated to do more than 100mbit.
It will be printed on the cable sheathing what spec it is. And it does make a difference if you have things like multiple sources trying to read from the device at once.
 
It's more likely to be network interface card or hard disk throughput.

What are you transferring to/from?
 
thanks gents - had to look up 4 twisted pair as I didn't have a scooby what that is.....still don't really! I'm transferring stuff from laptop which is wired directly into the router as is the NAS. Both cables state cat e5 on them so I guess I getting as good as I can get at around 14 M/s?

Just thought is it worth tinkering with the NIC settings (Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller)?
 
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It's just a cheap NAS then If you're getting over 12.5 mb/s then its not running at 100Mbps, but faster
 
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