Wired Ethernet Connection Speeds

Burnsy2023 · 20 Oct 2009 at 19:12

Just for my interest post the following:

Length of cable between you and a local server or other node you can test speeds with (must be within your home). Your BIOS can often help you estimate.
Network speed (100/1000mbps)
Type of cable (cat5e/cat6)
Throughput in MB/s

Just wondering how much home interference could affect connection speeds

paradigm · 20 Oct 2009 at 19:38

Server (2008 R2), connecting to Webserver IIS7 running on a Windows 7 Laptop
Gigabit Ethernet
Cat5e to switch (Cisco 3508) 5m
Cat5e to laptop 5m

24MB/s

I am assuming that the slow speed of the "host's" HDD will be a negative impact.

wij · 20 Oct 2009 at 19:41

PC -> 55M Cat5E -> GigE Switch (HP) -> Server

NIC's are all Intel with jumbo frames on.

According to iPerf I can see circa 960Mbit/sec wirespeed throughput.

Daegan · 20 Oct 2009 at 19:54

15m of cat5e via a procurve switch, onboard realtek nics at 1Gbps with 7k jumbo frames, gives me just over 50MB/s.

dave-lew99 · 20 Oct 2009 at 20:16

Around 70m of CAT5 (not e in some places) to LevelOne gigabit switch, 20m CAT5E to another LevelOne switch.

Server is Solaris 10 w/Samba
Client is Win XP Pro
Both with Intel PRO/1000 cards

Usually see 70-80Mb/s