Very slow local network data transfer?

[PixelChef]

Hi there,

Excuse my ignorance here, but I seem to be getting very slow transfer speeds on my local network.

Basically, I want to copy my movies from my main PC to a new hard drive in my HTPC, so I have shared the relevant hard drives on the network and started to copy the files across with TeraCopy and just windows, TeraCopy is a little faster but still only maximum of 3mb/s? Gonna take over 4 days at this rate.

Is that really slow? If so what is limiting the speed? I'm with Plusnet and just have their standard router, could that be the issue?

Thanks.

 

[PixelChef]

I'm connected via powerline on both PC's, would that be limiting it? Would it be significantly faster if I connected both to router directly?

 

[PixelChef]

Even with that basic router you'll probably see a 4x improvement with direct network cables.

Okay thanks may give that a go later.