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Slow file copying from Win 7 PC to other network PCs
I have a modest home network with two Windows 7 PCs and one Windows XP PC connected via a D-Link DIR-655 router. The XP machine and one of the 7 machines are connected to the router via gigabit ethernet ports, and the other PC by a wifi card. Internet download/upload speeds on the two wired machines are around 30Mbps/6Mbps, and around 5Mbps/5Mbps on the wireless box.
I noticed when I built my first Win 7 machine that copying files from the Win 7 box to the XP box was abnormally slow when the transfer was initiated from the Win 7 machine, but snappy when the transfer was initiated from the XP machine. I chalked that up to incompatibility between the two OS's, and didn't give much more thought to it.
I built my second Win 7 machine a few weeks ago, and was surprised to discover the same slow push/fast pull problem when copying files to and from the Windows 7 machines. Disabling and enabling various settings on the new machine's Realtek PCIe GBE Family Ethernet Controller haven't fixed the problem, and I've exhausted most of the supposed "fixes" I found on the net.
When I say "slow" copying speeds, I'm talking 500Kbps on machines equipped with gigabit ethernet NICs. Anyone know how I can fix this?