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Why is a Gigabit network so slooowww?
OK, I have never in my life of being a network admin, have I seen such really slow network file transfers, the company I work for as a network admin, uses Gigabit networks with CAT6 cabling, and Gigabit switches, and they are transferring 100's of if not 1000's of files daily to and from workstations and backup servers and their transfer speed is no less than 150MB/s to a peak of 180MB/s, but my home network? Now that's another story.
Being a network admin, I know how to install and setup networks, which I did at my house, I use a highspeed cable modem, a 12 port Gigabit switch and CAT6 cable throughout, every computer in the house has Gigabit NIC's, and there's 3 computers, a network printer, Vonage VOIP adapter, Smart TV, and 2 servers (1x NAS and 1x web server) connected to the LAN, now, this is where it gets interesting, it seems the more files to transfer, the slower the network, IE, to transfer a single 16GB nkl sample file took around 1m 15s at 150MB/s (transfer speed is in bytes not bits), but multiple file transfers of say a folder containing 27,550 files totaling 26.7GB took around 1h 25m at 1.4MB/s (dropping to a minimum of 900B/s (as in bytes per second), as I said earlier, I have never in my life as a network admin come across such slow network, and I can't even figure out why, I even disconnected every device with exception to 2 computers on the switch and tried the same file transfers, and with the same result, I even completely re-wired the system twice, and same result.
Parallel transfers back in the 80s using Laplink was a damn site faster.
It seems to me, the more powerful the computer gets, the more backward the networks is getting, eventually the speed will more likely match that of the old 10/100 base networks.
I've tried just about everything humanly possible,,,, as they say, "2 heads are better than 1",, anyone got any suggestions?