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Need help with my home network please!!
Hello,
Need assistance on my home network if anyone can help me.
I've got 50mb broadband coming into my house and from the modem going into my 'D-Link DIR-615 Wireless Router' (http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=565) via what says on the cable 'CAT 5 Patch Cable UTP Net X'.
I have a Western Digital Home network hard drive (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=587) connected by 'CAT 5 Patch Cable UTP Evernew'.
Lastly I am connecting to my HP Compaq 6910p laptop (http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2007/mobilitysummit/ds...) via a 'CAT 5e Patch Cable UTP Evernew'
So that's my set up..sorry if its amateur or sloppy.
The problem I have is the speeds I've got transferring between everything. When moving something from my laptop to the hard drive and vis versa I can only get to speeds of 12mb/s and when I transfer wireless between the two I can only get speeds of 2.6 mb/s max.
What can I do to improve this? Is is my equipment? i.e. laptop, router or cables?
I have read that you can get speeds of 100mb/s from a CAT 5 cable but I am getting no where near this.
Would anyone be able to assist with my problem pleaseeeee??
Thanks in advance
Need assistance on my home network if anyone can help me.
I've got 50mb broadband coming into my house and from the modem going into my 'D-Link DIR-615 Wireless Router' (http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=565) via what says on the cable 'CAT 5 Patch Cable UTP Net X'.
I have a Western Digital Home network hard drive (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=587) connected by 'CAT 5 Patch Cable UTP Evernew'.
Lastly I am connecting to my HP Compaq 6910p laptop (http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2007/mobilitysummit/ds...) via a 'CAT 5e Patch Cable UTP Evernew'
So that's my set up..sorry if its amateur or sloppy.
The problem I have is the speeds I've got transferring between everything. When moving something from my laptop to the hard drive and vis versa I can only get to speeds of 12mb/s and when I transfer wireless between the two I can only get speeds of 2.6 mb/s max.
What can I do to improve this? Is is my equipment? i.e. laptop, router or cables?
I have read that you can get speeds of 100mb/s from a CAT 5 cable but I am getting no where near this.
Would anyone be able to assist with my problem pleaseeeee??
Thanks in advance
Tags: Network, laptop, router, speed, windows, wireless
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Permalink Reply by Dan501 on -
What kind of service do you have to get 50mb broadband? Something I rarely see thaat in the States for a home connection to broadband.
You are comparing megabits on the broadband to megabytes on the transfer rate and that is where a lot of your difference is coming from.
As for wireless connection, I am guessing you have a G adapter in your laptop that does not take advantage of N in the router.
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Permalink Reply by Damian Griffiths on -
I am in the UK am getting 50MB fibre optic broadband from Virgin, and there also rolling out 100mb next month which I will be upgrading too. I haven't got a G adapter on the laptop, just using the built in wireless receiver that came with the laptop. in terms of transfer rates then, what speeds should I be able to transfer over the network via ethernet cable and wireless?
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Permalink Reply by Dan501 on
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The built in adapter is probably "G".
It takes 8 bits to make a byte. 12mb/s = 96mbits /s
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Permalink Reply by JT on -
Going through the Router Wirelessly from the Laptop I would guess that you should be getting 54 MPS and when you are connected via Cat 5 Patch cable 100 MPS.
Have you been disabling the Wireless when you are connected via the cable? You can do this via Windows Device Manager.
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Permalink Reply by Damian Griffiths on
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Yeah, when I connect through the Ethernet wire wire I turn wireless off on the laptop, just a little button I can press to switch it on/off. Sorry is MPS mega bytes per second? is that the transfer rate I should be having. Getting a little confused between mega byte and bits etc
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Permalink Reply by DTM on -
What device/software are you using to guage your transfer speeds?
What OS's are you using to transfer?
Also, to this date I have never seen transfer speeds more then 11 MegaBytes (88Mbits) per second over a 100 Mbit Ethernet hard wired connection. Way less then that on Wireless.
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Permalink Reply by Damian Griffiths on
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I am looking at my transfer speeds through the transfer window that pops up during the the transfer. I am using Windows 7 Professional x64bit. So when you say that you haven't seen transfer speeds greater than 11Megabytes is this the same for downloading then straight from the internet too? If I am getting 50mb broadband then will not be able to make the most of it with the equipment I have got? I appreciate everyone's help too as I understand I may be asking amateur questions but I really just don't know what I should be expecting from my 50mb broadband. Performing transfers over the network I am getting 12.2 megabytes per second and 2.6 megabytes per second wireless.
Thanks again
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Permalink Reply by Dan501 on
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First, I believe you are trying to equate 2 different things.
Downloads from the Internet are usually measured in bits and the rate is often controlled by the server you are downloading from.
Local transfers are measured in bytes and are influenced by many things. A bad cable can slow you down, but the most likely cause is the speed of your hard drive and computer. The data has to be handle at the hard drive, cpu, network card, router, another network card, another cpu and finally the destination hard drive.
Transferring wireless I am around 3.0 myself.
dan
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Permalink Reply by Grant Mellor on -
Test your connection with SpeedTest.
http://www.alken.nl/europemap.html
That'll test your DL and UL speeds. You're not going to get your full connection running through a router. If you want to take full advantage of the connection then you'd have to remove the intermediary networking devices and connect directly to the modem. Otherwise, upgrade the wireless card in your lappy to N if it truly is only Wireless G capable and go from there.
What are you doing online that you need that kind of bandwidth?
I think it's hilarious that people here in the US get so hard on the "premium" connections offered over here. 1. They cost an arm and a leg. 2. They don't compare at all to the speeds offered across the pond.
Sadly. I'm one of those poor US-bound individuals suffering from limited bandwidth.
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Permalink Reply by Damian Griffiths on
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Thanks...I live in a house with 3 others. And we are all gamers and movie addicts. So constantly downloading films and transferring them onto the network hard drive and when I am transferring a 10gb Movie etc its quite annoying when wireless I see I speed of 2mb/s.
Yeah thank fully virgin media is leading the way in broadband in the UK. They've got 100mb broadband out now too, which I'm sure I'll be switching too. However to say that you get those speeds is something different. But Virgin know this and all it takes is a phone call to say that you aren't getting the speeds your paying for and they will credit your account with a discount for that month
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