Question about intranet transfers speeds
 

I'm transferring content from my NAS to two of my computers. One computer is doing about 3.5 MB per second, the other computer is doing about 8.5 MB per second.

Why am I getting 8.5 MB on one and 3.5 MB on the other? Is there a way for me to get 8.5 MB on each? Is there a way for me to get faster than 8.5 MB?

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

USB 3.0 or SSDS or FLASH

My 8.5 is SSD. Both computers are hard lined into the switch.

ah there ya go.. so the 3.5 s a regular platter style?

It might be the nic in your computer - some of them are pretty crappy. Do you have a desktop machine that you can try different cards in?

Their are settings in the device manager under hardware.

It's because there's a NAS involved. Most of those things are slow as dogshit.

When I transfer files between my computers on my network, I get about 100 MB per sec. When I transfer to or from my NAS, it's usually in the 10MB per second range.

8.5 MB is pretty good result with NAS.

I often get just about 4~6 MB/s from my NAS

I figured out the problem. It's my switch. I caught each computer maxing out at 10. I just ordered a gigabit switch, will post results later this week.

Little technical but it might also be that one of your ports at your switch is in half-duplex mode. Usually not a problem but if you have a managed switch (one where you can logon to), you might want to check your ports.

500k per second user passed

Update: With my new gigabit switch, I am seeing transfer speeds in the 100 MB/s range.

I am now happy!