real world difference between 10/100 and 1000

dangerstat · 15 Aug 2009 at 18:44

Hey guys,

I was thinking of upgrading my router from a desktop type 10/100 netgear switch to a 10/100/1000 switch, and I was looking for some real world figures of that the transfer rate would be. At the moment I seem to get 6.7-8 MB/sec so I assume it'll scale in a linear fashion and I'll get 67MB/sec?

Thought you guys would be the best to ask

ethos · 15 Aug 2009 at 18:48

Might be of interest:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/technolo...95_ns17_Networking_Solutions_White_Paper.html

slylittlefox · 15 Aug 2009 at 18:54

You should really be getting around ~12MB/s from your 10/100 gear. Using Gigabit you'll probably find you hit disk bottlenecks before network - you can expect to get around 60-80MB/s

s0ck · 16 Aug 2009 at 02:02

If you're not evening getting 11MB/s from your current setup, don't expect gigabit switches to make everything better

Try an FTP test as opposed to SMB, too.

dangerstat · 16 Aug 2009 at 13:20

Thanks for the replies guys.

I just did an FTP transfer from one of my Macs to a Linux machine which gave the following stats:

100% 402MB 10.9MB/s 00:37

Does that sound about right?

(I was VNC'd into the Mac from the Linux box at the same time though :/)

Street · 16 Aug 2009 at 13:41

I recently upgraded my home network to a gigabit switch and the performance is like night and day! Before I was getting 11MB/s which was crippled if someone else was copying from the file server, now I average around 50MB/s and the network doesn't slow down as much if someone else is copying as well!

dangerstat · 16 Aug 2009 at 14:06

Street said:
I recently upgraded my home network to a gigabit switch and the performance is like night and day! Before I was getting 11MB/s which was crippled if someone else was copying from the file server, now I average around 50MB/s and the network doesn't slow down as much if someone else is copying as well!

That's good to hear - think I'll go ahead and grab a gigabit switch then

slylittlefox · 17 Aug 2009 at 20:29

dangerstat said:
Thanks for the replies guys.

I just did an FTP transfer from one of my Macs to a Linux machine which gave the following stats:

100% 402MB 10.9MB/s 00:37

Does that sound about right?

(I was VNC'd into the Mac from the Linux box at the same time though :/)

10.9MB/s is about what I'd expect, taking into account that there's significant overhead involved with FTP too.

You should expect much better transfer speeds with Gigabit kit. I've just ordered the 8-port Netgear desktop switch for home from OcUK along with the 802.11n WAP