file transfer on local network . can go faster? [switching hub] [tiny percentage]
Q: If I large files from one PC to another on my local network, I see 2% occupancy in the Network tab of Task Manager. Does this mean Im just switching to this small percentage of the fee that is posible? Is there anything I can / should change the process to accelerate?
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edit: I am running WindowsXP with 10/100 NIC and a network switching hub
Best Answer: you will probably need a router like Linksys wrt54gl.
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Re:Thanks everyone!
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Re:When I figure out how long it takes to transfer something, I actually use the same formula that guy does = 1 byte of file data = 10 bits across the network. Sure, it's not technically accurate, but it usually works out about right when you include the network overhead involved in a file transfer and I'm all about making things easy, simple powers of ten that I can do in my head.
And, 53 Mb/s is JUST fine for a home network. You can get higher, but it takes a fair amount of computing horsepower to push it much further.
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Re:If you have real time virus scanners on both ends that can cause some delay as well.
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Re:800MB = 6400mb (8 bit bytes
)6400 / 150 =42mb/s ?
That's not bad. Task manager must have something else going on too. 
Maybe it counts loopback or something…
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Re:Math? ERRRK
I'm supposed to remember and use all this edumacation they shoved down my throat 15 years ago…. FINE!
the total transfer is ~800MB. I'm assuming 10 bits/byte (parity, et al.) and ~150 seconds for the transfer… that got me to something like 53Kbps… OK, I can deal with that. Of course that leads to the question… If I'm talking at 53Kbps on a 100Kbps network… how in the ferk did that task manager figure it's 2% number?
ACK!!!!!!!!! stop! that was only a rheotorical question. 
now back to our regularly scheduled :beer:
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Re:You can try disabling the QoS stuff. I think it's in the network properties (not positive since I don't have an XP machine and uninstalled it from my 2k3 machine
). The % that task manager gives you might be wrong too. It'd be easier if you had a KB or MB per second metric to go by. If my poor math skills are correct (unlikely right now ), 650MB in 120 seconds isn't too bad, IMO.
Cheap network cards might also cause speed issues…
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
There are several factors that could be taken into account. The quality of your cables could be problems. QoS scheduler or whatever it was in XP could cause some slow downs. Slow/busy hard drives could be a slowdown.
Thanks guy. The way I'm reading this it sounds like you think I am slower than I should be.
It takes over 2 minutes to transfer a CD image… sounded slow to me also, but I've nothing to compare it to.
I don't know what the QoS packet scheduler does.. should I try removing it?
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Re:There are several factors that could be taken into account. The quality of your cables could be problems. QoS scheduler or whatever it was in XP could cause some slow downs. Slow/busy hard drives could be a slowdown.
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