speed up LAN file transfers?

Another point is last time file accessed if you have this turned on it will slow things down turn it off. If you use robocopy copy via a mapped drive
 
Its 8 port brother (Netgear GS608) will allow you to connect the 7 PCs, along with the router. Alternatively the same money will get you an 8 port HP ProCurve, which is probably a bit better made.

Not even probably, it is.

Metal casing and a better PSU (not a wall wart), also a decent warranty that HP will actually stand by.

Might cost an extra £5 but well worth it IMO.
 
I have the Netgear 834N connected, from that one cable goes to 8 port Gigabit switch, everything on the network gets connected to the 8 port Gigabit switch, like one post mentioned make sure your using cat 5 e or better do a wiki on cat 5.
 
As K.C.Leblanc said, get a gigabit switch, connect all of your PCs to it, and then connect it to a single LAN ethernet port on the router. Even a cheap Dlink (~£45) will be good enough, as you will not see 1Gbit between 2 machines, because your hard drives will be slower than the network. (A fast SSD at each end with read and write speeds of 200MB/s would max 1Gbit ethernet, but a fast traditional hard drive ~100MB/s won't).

Also do not enable jumbo frames, this will cause a drop in performance when trying to upload content to the internet.
 
Can the files be compressed prior to transfer and uncompressed upon receipt?

Will a compression > copy over network > decompression be faster than sending the files uncompressed across the network? (assuming you could automate the compression and decompression it might be)

Worth testing.
 
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