Very slow local network data transfer?

PixelChef · 30 Aug 2015 at 11:04

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.

bremen1874 · 30 Aug 2015 at 11:14

Wired or wireless?

The wired ports will be 100Mb/s which will allow transfers at 12.5MB/s.

bledd · 30 Aug 2015 at 11:27

Wired ports should be 1000Mbps, unless you have crap hardware.

Don't use power line or wireless.

bremen1874 · 30 Aug 2015 at 11:36

OP says it's the standard Plusnet router. Unless things have changed that means 100Mbit Ethernet and very basic single channel wireless.

PixelChef · 30 Aug 2015 at 11:40

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?

bremen1874 · 30 Aug 2015 at 11:50

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

PixelChef · 30 Aug 2015 at 13:45

bremen1874 said:
Even with that basic router you'll probably see a 4x improvement with direct network cables.

Okay thanks may give that a go later.

asim18 · 30 Aug 2015 at 21:33

Something is certainly broken if you're only getting 3Mb/s.

I always get 1000Mb/s if the hard drives are less than a few years old. Even on old hard drives I get ~700Mb/s.

First port of call is to get rid of those joke items known as powerline adapters.

bremen1874 · 30 Aug 2015 at 21:40

It's almost certainly 3MB/s rather than 3Mb/s, but that's still fairly poor even for a Powerline connection.

Unlikely your seeing a real 1000Mb/s. I'm yet to see a true 125MB/s transfer even on simulated traffic.

bledd · 30 Aug 2015 at 22:32

I'm sure he means 950+Mbps. Not bang on 1000.