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This comes out to about 12 to 16 megabit/seond. I've read in forums that people are getting much higher speeds (ie: "40-60 Mb/s" http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7589_102-0.html?threadID=265967). I'm getting my benchmark by having a unmanged 5 port switch connected to a WRT54GS router connect. I'm sending a file from a computer connect to the WRT54GS to another computer that's connect to the unmanaged 5 port switch. Is the linkage of the switch causing this massive overhead? i doubt it. What could explain the slow down? electrical interference?
1much traffic on lan? what is the switch? Are the file source and destination internal hard drives? – RJFalconer – 2010-01-09T17:45:34.717
You can see how much throughput you can get my taking the speed of the network * the latency (e.g. 1 Gbps * 100 ms = 100 Mb ~ 12 MB). That said, I've noticed a speed difference when transferring from disk to disk and RAM disk to RAM disk, so the choke point may not be the network. If you are talking about Windows here is an interesting video about how Windows uses bandwidth and the changes in Windows 7 (Windows 7: Optimizing Applications for Remote File Services over the WAN http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ES23/)
– Scott McClenning – 2010-01-09T19:13:12.433@Scott I really have to question your equation for throughput, unless you're using a strange definition of the term. – phoebus – 2010-01-09T20:30:17.473