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Fast Internet, Slow Network
Hi all,
Im in the process of building a test Win7 box, dumping as much software on it as possible to check compatibility...
I had a iTunes x64 installer on a network share, which failed "Is not a valid win32 app."
So I redownloaded it, 93.8MB in 15seconds. Thats roughly 4MB/s. Decent speed.
It installed fine.
Next piece of software is a standalone, so doenst have an installer. So copy/pasting files from the network to C:\temp, Im getting speeds of 768KB/s.
Thought that was a bit slow. I figured it might be the server.
I setup a share on my box right next to my other box, and tried copying a 6gb .iso, also getting speeds of <1MB/s
Accessing share by IP and DNS name both the same result.
Both boxes have gigabit nic's running through a gigabit netgear switch running to a gigabit port in the wall.
So the golden question is, how/why is the network speed from PC to PC, Server to PC much slower than Internet to PC.