Jay R. Wren - lazy dawg evarlast » Networking http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog babblings of a computer loving fool Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:34:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 I still like wired networks http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2009/12/13/i-still-like-wired-networks/ http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2009/12/13/i-still-like-wired-networks/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:07:48 +0000 jrwren http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2009/12/13/i-still-like-wired-networks/ I needed to archive 472MB of photos onto the home file server so that my wife could access them.

Over wifi, I got an estimate of 35minutes. Yes this is horribly slow, even for a 54Mbit “G” speed network.

So I plugged in the CAT5 cable, I disabled wifi on my laptop and I pressed refresh in windows explorer so that SMB2 was now talking on the wired network.

I performed the exact same drag and drop to copy the files and it was done in 5 seconds, almost faster than I could expand the Windows 7 copy dialog and see the transfer rate of > 50MBytes/second.

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