Gigabit LAN tuning

[Kent McPherson]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum or not but I just upgraded a segment
of my home LAN to gigabit ethernet. I have 2 PCs on this LAN. 1 PC is
running XP Pro and has a 3Ghz P4 CPU with 1GB of memory. The other PC is
running XP Media Center and has an E6400 dual core CPU with 2GB of memory.
I just put an Intel gigabit enet controller in both PCs. I installed a
TRENDnet 5-port gigabit switch on my LAN and plugged both PCs into that
switch. The lights on the switch show both PCs are running at 1000Mbps.

Prior to the upgrade, I copied a 55GB file from 1 PC to the other and it
took 95 minutes. After the upgrade, it still took 60 minutes when I was
expecting much less. I haven't changed any internal settings.

Should I be able to attain better copy speeds?

 

[Jack \(MVP-Networking\).]

Hi
These two pages might shed some light on the issue.
Home Giga Network: http://www.ezlan.net/giga.html
Giga networking - http://www.ezlan.net/giga_net.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).

 

[Paul Johnson]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum or not but I just upgraded a
segment
of my home LAN to gigabit ethernet. I have 2 PCs on this LAN. 1 PC is
running XP Pro and has a 3Ghz P4 CPU with 1GB of memory. The other PC is
running XP Media Center and has an E6400 dual core CPU with 2GB of memory.
I just put an Intel gigabit enet controller in both PCs. I installed a
TRENDnet 5-port gigabit switch on my LAN and plugged both PCs into that
switch. The lights on the switch show both PCs are running at 1000Mbps.

Prior to the upgrade, I copied a 55GB file from 1 PC to the other and it
took 95 minutes. After the upgrade, it still took 60 minutes when I was
expecting much less. I haven't changed any internal settings.

Should I be able to attain better copy speeds?

You should, yes, but probably not too much so given that 1) We're dealing
with Windows, which taxes systems heavily compared to alternatives
available, and 2) You're probably working over SMB instead of a more
efficient protocol like SFTP or FTP. If you change both, you can probably
get that transfer time down to about 10 minutes or so.