Network Transfer Speeds are Crazy

**Rawr** · 07-09-11, 12:36 PM

So I at my friends place and have a game on my laptop that I would rather play on his computer, but since it's 30 gigs and rogers apparently charges you when you go above 60gigs a month i figured it was obviously faster and easier to just transfer it over the network.

So here's the network setup: Crappy wireless G router with no antenna so I brought my Airport Express and plugged it into the router so I had wireless. We are both running Win 7 but were not part of the same homegroup. I shared the file on the network and started transfering the game, it was going at 5 megs per second but I figured if I went to a wired connection it would be much faster so I stopped and just walked to the router and plugged my laptop in. I also quickly set up the homegroup since it wouldn't seem to work through the airport (I could share files, but I couldn't join his homegroup for whatever reason). After doing this and restarting the file transfer it was going at just over 1 meg per second... WTF?

Why would some router to wireless extender solution work 5x faster than plugging straight into the router? Crazy shit...

**roadhog0** · 07-11-11, 11:52 PM

Dude... When I was DLing stuff from Steam it would go at 750k for 15 mins then 0 for 5... WTF?! I still had internet. Fricken Steam :/

**bust331** · 07-12-11, 12:12 AM

I wish 750 a second...try 120...on a good day.

Until I reset the internet it was going at 40kb/s...exactly why I hate downloading games, it takes me 12+ hours.

Take for example now, started downloading a 8.3 Gb game at 7 PM, it's now 1:30 AM and I'm only 1.8 in.

Should be done sometime in the afternoon.

Just insane.

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**Rawr** · 07-12-11, 06:40 AM

That does suck, but this was networked computer to networked computer with no Internet involved.

**bust331** · 07-12-11, 06:27 PM

LOL my bad, I should read the thread better next time.

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**SmokenScion** · 07-12-11, 06:33 PM

Bad wire,

**h7g6f5** · 07-12-11, 06:52 PM

Depends on what cable you used? What your NIC limits are (10/100/1000)? Also, can be a router setting? With what you described there are many X, Y, Z's. With out further testing we can't identify the source of the problem. Also, remember windows sometimes does a bad job of display the transfer rate.

Respectfully,
h7g6f5

**Langrad** · 07-15-11, 03:13 AM

I got a 25 foot crossover cable so I just plug the two computers together and on a clunky 7-8 year old POS laptop I get around 10MB/S between good computers its 30-50 MB/S makes reformating a breeze

**Rawr** · 07-15-11, 08:14 AM

I know the computers are gigabit Ethernet ports although I'm assuming the router is 100., either way it's the only big transfer that I'm making so it's done with at least. I have a crossover cable at home, never thought I would need it though.