Slow network speeds - How to find bottleneck?

[GravyMonster]

Hi all,

I'm trying to copy a backup DVD of old work to our NAS at work and it's taking faaaaaaar too long.

It's a standard DVD (4.7Gb) and Vista is telling me it's going to take 2 hours and 20 minutes to copy over our Gigabit network. Is that right?

If that's slow, is there any way I can spot the bottle neck?

Thanks

 

[james201]

even though youve probably finished this now,

try a program called Teracopy, it sped up my transfer of 36gb to about 6 minutes, from 3 hours 15 mins. The problem could also be the read speed of the DVD device. Rememeber, the files can only be written as fast as they are read

hope this helps
James