As wien said, forget about achieving theoretical maximum throughputs. If you're actually using the draft-n standard, maybe you should be expecting 5-10 Mbit/s more. 802.11g 'can' max 54 Mbit/s, which is 6.75 Mb/s. Typically you get about a third of that, 2.25 Mb/s, so your transfer speeds are within the normal operating range of the wireless standards you're using. If you want faster transfers, upgrade to gigabit ethernet ^_^
My powerline adaptors are a god send, wireless used to be a complete laggy pain in the rear, now I have perfect connection for my xbox360, PS3 and my 1TB HD media box, which I regularly use to transfer files off 1.5GB to and from.
Yeah - That's all it worked for. For my 360. For my PC it was rubbish for anything other than instant messaging. 
I've never heard of powerline, but I've never had good luck with wireless. Even in the office, where I'm sitting across the room from the router with nothing blocking it, my internet cuts every half hour or so. The router needs to be reset twice a day almost every single day. I'm looking forward to finally getting the hardwire lines installed before I get back to the office in the summer, because this wireless business is annoying the hell out of all of us here.
At home it's not better - even my father whos computer is connected directly to the wireless router via ethernet has problems and the router at home needs to be reset nearly every day. It's at the point where while I'm at school he disconnects the router entirely and just runs straight from the modem. (With absolutely no issues, I might add)
It's not a lemon router, either, as we've had 3 of them and each and every one has had the same problem.
At home it's not better - even my father whos computer is connected directly to the wireless router via ethernet has problems and the router at home needs to be reset nearly every day. It's at the point where while I'm at school he disconnects the router entirely and just runs straight from the modem. (With absolutely no issues, I might add)
It's not a lemon router, either, as we've had 3 of them and each and every one has had the same problem.
No not internet speed. My Speed from my wireless hard drive to my computer.
If i was getting 2mb/s for my internet id also be over the moon, even though im meant to be getting that now anyways.
Right ive plugged my laptop in via ethernet and its not much faster.
Currently its moving files at a speed of 3.13mb/s.
Surely it should be uber fast?
The hard drive is connected via ethernet to my modem, my modem is connected via ethernet to my laptop.
Its like one big ethernet cable. Should be lightning fast..... no?
Cat5 cables are very good, according to the IT woman at work. She came and tidied are communications cupboard which was a sea of massively long rubbish cables so she took the system down for a while, replaced all the cables with shorter cat5 ones, tidied it all up and there is now a marked improvement on the whole system.
So if i was to buy two cat 5 cables? And one from my harddrive to my router, and another from my router to my laptop then id be able to transfer files faster then i currently am?
Can anyone else confirm this?
Can anyone else confirm this?
I'd be shocked out of my skull if what you're currently using isn't cat-5 cable. Bangerboy up there obviously doesn't know what he's talking about.
wait a second.. is it just a harddrive, or are you connecting to another computer? If it's just a harddrive, why are you running it through a router? And why are you using Ethernet? (Do any harddrives even have ethernet connections?)
Hmm well i honestly have no clue what types of cables im using. I just know their ethernet cables :/ hmmm
They're usually called NAS (Network Attached Storage), but yeah they're basically harddrives with an ethernet plug. Or wireless as in this case. They're fairly common these days.
Then, if they're bought within the last decade, they're cat-5 cables.
Yeah its a NAS hard drive.
(a LOAD of shite imo)
Its not wireless, i have no clue why i said it was earlier.
its got an ethernet port on the back, which is connected to the back of my router, then my router is now connected via another ethernet cable to my laptop.
Yeah they are Cat-5. It says on the side
(a LOAD of shite imo)
Its not wireless, i have no clue why i said it was earlier.
its got an ethernet port on the back, which is connected to the back of my router, then my router is now connected via another ethernet cable to my laptop.
Yeah they are Cat-5. It says on the side
Thats what i mean, ours is an old system, and i mean old. I dont think the cables we had before were of a good enough standard.
Depending on the speed of the slowest part in the equation Cat5 cables can provide 10/100/1000 Mbit/sec. I have a US Robotics ADSL Router which also has a 4 port 100 Mbit/sec switch. I have 2 PCs connected to the switch and I can totally saturate the 100 Mbit/sec easily when transferring files between the two (giving a transfer rate of roughly 12-12.5 megabytes per second). I'm considering moving to a gigabit switch as good Cat5 cable can be used for this rate.
Take a look at the technical specs of your router to see if the speed of it is mentioned anywhere (when connected with ethernet, not wireless).
Unless your My Book has a serious problem internally it should be able to write a lot faster than 3.13 megabytes per second. After all, it's only an internal hard drive in a USB external enclosure.
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=347
10/100/1000 Mb/s capable
My Harddrive.
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCa ... process?Product_Id=273526
The only thing about speed i can find is " Up to 300 Mbps in 40MHz Channel Mode" But the 40mhz channel makes me think thats about the wireless side of the modem. Hmm
10/100/1000 Mb/s capable
My Harddrive.
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCa ... process?Product_Id=273526
The only thing about speed i can find is " Up to 300 Mbps in 40MHz Channel Mode" But the 40mhz channel makes me think thats about the wireless side of the modem. Hmm
It's probably a 100Mb ethernet switch round the back, so you should be seeing around 8MB/s of effective bandwidth with your computer plugged into it. Why you're not achieving that is hard to say. The drive shows up as a normal network share in Windows? Or is there some proprietary shite of a program you have to use to access it?
Under 'Specs > ports':
"LAN x-10/100Base-T", so it's 100 Mbit/s.
"LAN x-10/100Base-T", so it's 100 Mbit/s.
I was for the best part of today using a programme that came with it. Even though if I was to restart after installing it my laptop would crash at the desktop unless I "boot with last known good configuration".
Then I set the harddrive up as a shared folder and I then simply made a path to the shared folder.
Although the programme which I was using before wasn't uninstalled until now. Could it have been messing around with the speeds?
Then I set the harddrive up as a shared folder and I then simply made a path to the shared folder.
Although the programme which I was using before wasn't uninstalled until now. Could it have been messing around with the speeds?
Wich program is this could it be windows deffender that gave me some internet trouble
Nah nah it's not that. Or any virus type thing. It's something like WD Access Anywhere. Although I do have windows defender, perhaps I should uninstall it?
I would do that if I were you yeah
No, don't. Chrisuu, just because you had a problem doesn't mean everyone else is. I have Defender running and I can get 12-12.5 megabytes per second on my network no problem.
If you're not using it, probably not, but who knows with these things.
But if mounting the drive as a normal share still doesn't help, I'm not sure what to suggest. The drive could be fragmented all to hell I suppose, but even then you should get better speeds than that. Maybe some anti-virus program is butting in while copying? You could try disabling anything like that temporarily to see if it makes a difference. (Not sure if defender qualifies)
Do you have a lot of traffic other on your network? Other family members downloading pr0n while you're not looking?
Ill try disabling kapersky in a bit then.
At the time i was moving files their were no other family members on.
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