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Originally Posted by dragon
Just wandered what sort of speeds I should be expecting over 1Gbit/s Lan.
I seem to push around 25 - 40MB/s on a Single transfer over FTP and about 20 -25 MB/s over samba
I suspect I could maybe get a bit more out of it If I was transfering to Different drives on the "server" machine reading from multiple drives on the other machines...
Only 3 of my machines have 1Gbit connectivity anyway.
1) Macbook (when its on the same switch as the Dtop, if its not its limited to either wi-fi or powerline speeds)
2) Desktop (Via PCI card as onboard nic is only a 10/100)
3) "server" Onboard nic on the NF4.
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Aren't the NF4 Lan cards known to be rather bad at times, due to their built in hardware firewall?
Anywho, which cabling are you using? Ideally for 1GBps speed you should be using Cat6 class, at a stretch, Cat5e. Cat5 just will not do.
40MB/s equates to 320Mbps. So, only a third of your potential. However, how fast can your servers drives actually write? I know manhy standard hard drives top out around 60MB/s. And with a slow processor, maybe 40ish is tops?
Are the drives regularly defragmented? And what are the specs of the "server"?
Lot's of things on this one.
You could even try setting everythings duplex mode to "1Gbps Full Duplex", or half duplex. (Ask, if you don't know how)
What OS's are you using?