I've just got in a new gigabit switch (this one, although it's packaged as a Tenda unit rather than a Plexus one) to connect up my 2 PCs. I have connected the onboard network card from each of my 2 PCs (Marvell Yukon 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller in this PC and Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC on the other (descriptions taken from Device Manager)). The drivers for the network cards are correctly installed on each PC, the Speed light on the connector shows 1Gbps for each card and the connection from within Windows Network Connections for each of the cards shows the speed as 1.0 Gbps. The switch lights also show the 2 connected PCs as 1000 Mbps. All good so far. However, I'm not getting the transfer speeds I was expecting.
When I send files from PC1 to PC2 (using a shared folder on PC2, copy paste into it from PC1) I'm getting about 22 MB/sec (this is semi-acceptable). When I copy files from PC2 onto PC1 (copy paste from a shared folder on PC2 onto a local folder on PC1) I'm getting 11 MB/sec (this is 100 Mbps range and not acceptable).
PC1 (this PC) is running Vista Home Premium SP1 32 bit.
PC2 is running XP SP3 32 bit.
Am I missing something stupid / do I need to do anything else to improve the transfer speeds?
Thanks in advance for any help or advice.
When I send files from PC1 to PC2 (using a shared folder on PC2, copy paste into it from PC1) I'm getting about 22 MB/sec (this is semi-acceptable). When I copy files from PC2 onto PC1 (copy paste from a shared folder on PC2 onto a local folder on PC1) I'm getting 11 MB/sec (this is 100 Mbps range and not acceptable).
PC1 (this PC) is running Vista Home Premium SP1 32 bit.
PC2 is running XP SP3 32 bit.
Am I missing something stupid / do I need to do anything else to improve the transfer speeds?
Thanks in advance for any help or advice.