Originally Posted by iwantchixx

Bump up your network to gigabit lan but even at that, it's your hard drive that is the final bottleneck. Your slower transfer may be slowed from a hard drive related bottleneck. Make sure it's not fragmented too badly, nothing too heavy running in background, etc.

on a 100mbps lan, you can max out at 12.5 (theoretically) but with overhead and all the other traffic for file transfers, id say 8.5 is good.

on gigabit lan, you can do 125 but no hard drive can do that unless in a perfect world with raid and doing transfers only. I've hit around 30 on my network.

is your 3.5 wifi? that could be another cause