speed up LAN file transfers?

samuria · 19 Jul 2009 at 23:29

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

wij · 20 Jul 2009 at 00:39

Daegan said:
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.

siege2 · 20 Jul 2009 at 08:38

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.

HazardO · 20 Jul 2009 at 09:22

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.

Manlove is my forte · 20 Jul 2009 at 13:11

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.