Network Speeds Issue


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So I upgraded my router from the Linksys WRT54GL to the ASUS RT-AC66U router.

 

Yet, when copying a file from one computer to the next, I am still only getting around 11MB/s..

 

Is there something I need to change or what's going on?

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Are you talking wired or wireless? From wireless client to wireless client? Or from wireless client to wired client? To internet?

Nice that router now supports N or Gig, do your clients? Do you have anything else between your clients wired to your new gig router? That is not gig?

11MB/s would be a very good wired 100Mbit connection.. So your not at some point in your connection. Or what are you making the copy from, a USB disk that is where you limit could be?

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I am talking about a wired connection. It's coming from the system hard drive of one computer, to my computer.

 

Are you saying the speed depends on the hard drive? So if the file is coming from an old 7200RPM drive, it's maxed out at 11-15MB/s?

 

And anything between, not sure. The house is wired all the way through, my computer is close to the router...but not sure where the cable actually goes in the house, but it should end up to the router.

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You're either hitting something that is limited to or operating at 100Mbit. If you believe everything should be on gigabit then start checking driver settings as your devices should be on auto negotiate for your router.

Some driver options like Green Ethernet can get stuck on 100Mbit even though "on-demand" they are supposed to re-negotiate to 1000Mbit.

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So it does not matter what the hard drives are?

 

My router is gigabit, my new computer is gigabit...and my old computer is gigabit.

 
I have checked all settings on drivers, turned off any power saving stuff...still same. Also checked all cables, they are all cat5e.
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Even if it depends on the drives, 7200RPM should be able to do between 90 and 150MB/s am I wrong?

 

So what the heck is going on?

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There's a tool somewhere to test the limit of your connection in a "vacuum" of sorts to see if there's any problems. Essentially it tests your speed without writing anything to the destination. I'll dig around to see if I can remember the name but basically you seem to be getting pretty good speeds as it is. You have to remember that a hard drive is going to be the slowest part of a system.

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Try shutting off the anti-virus on both PC's and copy.  I bet your network speed has little to do with the problem and that you're virus scanning the inbound file.

 

Once I adjusted what was scanning, my transfer file time went from 20 minutes to under 30 seconds.

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As I said, if it depends on the drives, the drives should be able to do at least 90MB/s......my max 14MB/s (average 11MB/s) is not 90.

 

And the computer getting the file, has no virus program (well it has Windows 8, how do you turn that off)

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OP - test your drive speeds to make sure everything is good on your end first. See what kind of Read/Write speeds you get. 

 

What is your Jumbo Frame set to?

 

Are you transferring many many small files or large files?

 

Hell my SSD on my MBP Retina is 475/410 R/W and with a Thunderbolt 500GB Portable drive it was only 80MB/S - 110MB/s 

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How would I check? They are stated as 1000, so let me know what else I can check.

 

What is Jumbo Frame?

 

Also, how can I test drive speeds?

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11MB/s sounds like a 100MB connection. Sure your NIC is actually connected at the 1GB speed? Check your network status, it'll tell you its current link speed. I don't remember the exact numbers, when my network was at 100MB I would average like 12MB/s or so on copies, thereabouts. With this machine I'm on at the moment, on a 1GB network, I'm capped at the drive's speed as it's a mechanical drive, 7200RPM, I get about 55MB/s or so out of it. A couple units here have SSDs, if I recall they're around 100-110 if I remember right.

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Go to the network/sharing control panel, "Change adapter settings", then double click the network adapter in question.

 

I did have one issue quite a while back when my network had a couple of XP machines on it.. XP to/from 7 or Linux was slow for a gigabit network, even though they were configured properly, maybe 20MB/s under what they should be. Once they were bumped to 7 they went full speed. Never did figure that one out, you didn't mention what the other one was running but probably unrelated.

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As mentioned before confirm that all computers involved are actually at 1 Gbps 

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Next traditionally ASUS stock firmware for thier routers is not the best, most people will flash the router with either Tomato USB or DD-WRT

 

Tomato USB

http://tomato.groov.pl/

 

DD-WRT

http://www.dd-wrt.ca/site/index

 

I have an older ASUS RT-N16 router with tomato USB and I get great speeds doing file transfers between computers. Like you I have cat5e wiring throughout the house and all computers support gigabit speeds. The transfer image is for 3 movie files sent between computers that are about 10 meters apart.  

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Also make sure you have the latest drivers for all Ethernet cards, sometimes and upgraded driver will improve slow transfer speeds (sometimes not).

If you think you might want to use one of the 3rd party router firmwares mentioned above please make sure you read how-to's for both options.

 

Tomato USB

http://tomatousb.org/tut:installing-on-asus-rt-n16

 

DD-WRT

http://www.dd-wrt.ca/wiki/index.php/Installation

 

Anyway, I hope you can get to the bottom of the issue. 

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11MB/s sounds like a 100MB connection. Sure your NIC is actually connected at the 1GB speed? Check your network status, it'll tell you its current link speed. I don't remember the exact numbers, when my network was at 100MB I would average like 12MB/s or so on copies, thereabouts. With this machine I'm on at the moment, on a 1GB network, I'm capped at the drive's speed as it's a mechanical drive, 7200RPM, I get about 55MB/s or so out of it. A couple units here have SSDs, if I recall they're around 100-110 if I remember right.

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Go to the network/sharing control panel, "Change adapter settings", then double click the network adapter in question.

 

I did have one issue quite a while back when my network had a couple of XP machines on it.. XP to/from 7 or Linux was slow for a gigabit network, even though they were configured properly, maybe 20MB/s under what they should be. Once they were bumped to 7 they went full speed. Never did figure that one out, you didn't mention what the other one was running but probably unrelated.

Ok from that menu, it shows 100Mbps.....but WHY? All my computers are Windows 7 (mine is Windows 8)...all cables etc are Gigabit ready.

 

What am I missing....is there a setting somewhere I need to change.

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Ok from that menu, it shows 100Mbps.....but WHY? All my computers are Windows 7 (mine is Windows 8)...all cables etc are Gigabit ready. What am I missing....is there a setting somewhere I need to change.

They usually auto-detect the network speed on its own and adjust accordingly.. it's probably set to Auto-Negotiate or even forced to 100MB at the moment. You can go to the driver settings in the device manager or through the network control panel (either/or), bring up the properties for the network device, on the advanced tab there's a bunch of options. Look for the one that's marked "Speed and Duplex". 1.0GBs Full Duplex is usually what you want if auto-negotiate is failing for some reason, again that's assuming the hardware is all capable of it, both NICs and router.  Be careful as you can obviously make things worse if you change the wrong thing, remember what you change.

 

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Of course, both machines have to be running at 1GB, it'll only go as fast as the slowest NIC that's in the "conversation."

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If you're on stock ASUS firmware, you'll want it on Auto for speed and duplex.

 

Check BIOS/UEFI for LAN power saving/Green Ethernet/Energy Star compliant Ethernet and try turning it off. The other possibility is that one of your network cables is improperly terminated/wired.

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So I found that area, changed it to 1Gbps Full Duplex, and now it won't connect. Says network cable unplugged.

 

Had to change it back....What's with that...that has to do with the ASUS firmware?

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So I found that area, changed it to 1Gbps Full Duplex, and now it won't connect. Says network cable unplugged.

 

Had to change it back....What's with that...that has to do with the ASUS firmware?

The majority of non-managed Ethernet equipment requires auto-negotiate to be set to negotiate a suitable connection. Normal for most home network routers & switches - not limited to ASUS.

 

If you have a proper managed router (E.g. CISCO, Draytek) then you can specify what port negotiates at what transfer speed.

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So what does that mean, shouldn't it auto detect my gigabit speeds?

 

What's my options...still lost...my stuff should still be running at higher speeds..

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Apparently, I am an idiot.

 

My modem does not do gigabit....10/100 only :( How did I miss that one.

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What does your modem have to do with anything?? Unless you were physically connected to it - it has nothing to do with 2 devices talking to each other.

If you not getting gig speeds, then your plugged into a non gig port. Or there is something wrong with your cable.

Can you draw out how your physically connected to each other.. And how you have your router connected to your "modem" btw can you give the make and model number?? Does it have more than 1 lan port?

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Your right, I was confused, the modem does not matter.

There is only one port on my motherboard, it's the asrock z87e-itx. My router is the Asus RT-ac66u

My computer to the wall, to router, to modem.

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"My computer to the wall, to router, to modem. "

How is that a drawing?? Where is other computer your trying to copy files from or too connected.. Is it also wired to lan port on your router?

As you stated if one of your device your either copy from or too is only connected at 100mbit -- does not matter if your have 5 SSD in a Raid 0 on the other end connected at 10Gbe..

your only connected at 100mbit, so that is the limit your going to be able to move files in and out of that box at.

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Yes second computer is the same, and is actually right beside the modem and router.

Xomputer to the router, to the modem.

And I was concentrating on one system, cause that menu doesn't even say 1gb,says 100Mbps.

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