Slow speeds on a local wired network.

[hanluc]

Heys guys, can someone help me out here.

I have a Belkin router in the office which my main rig in there connects too, downstairs in the lounge I have a media PC which also connects to the same router, it's connected via an ethernet cable about 25 meters long.

Yesterday I decided to move several files from my media PC to the main rig to clear some hard drive space, it took all day as the transfer rate would not go over 11.2mbps, thinking it was maybe the old belkin router, this morning i changed it to the Thompson Bebox that Bethere gave me a year ago, that's rated at 54mbps but I'm still stuck at 11.2mbps.

Anyone know what's throttling my speed?

 

[AtaRo]

Looks like your network is still 100Mbps.
Upgrade to Gigabit, its easy just stick a Gigabit switch in there and upgrade your pc's nic to Gigabit card if it does not have one already.

 

[Phemo]

Are you talking megabits or megabytes? What are you using to measure the speed here? How much data were you moving?

 

[hanluc]

Are you talking megabits or megabytes?

megabytes, sorry I guess I should've used a capital B

What are you using to measure the speed here?

Windows 7 transfer rate

How much data were you moving?

About 500GB, a 10GB file took around 20 mins

Looks like your network is still 100Mbps.
Upgrade to Gigabit, its easy just stick a Gigabit switch in there and upgrade your pc's nic to Gigabit card if it does not have one already.

Thanks a lot, I'll look into it.

 

[Phemo]

Yup that's pretty much spot on for a 100Mbit network. Both your routers only have a built in 100Mbit switch so as suggested you should just buy a gigabit switch, plug your computers into that then plug a single cable from the gigabit switch into your router. Should only cost you £15 or so.