February 4, 20179 yr I have recently made myself a server machine to have at home to store all of my films, tv shows, music, etc. I am having issues with the transfer speeds between my pc and mac to the server. the read and write speeds vary from 5-9mb/s. when transfering files within the server i am getting 100-150Mb/s so i was wondering if anyone could help me figure out how to increase my speeds over the network. Here is my network configuration. The server is connected via Ethernet into the bottom of a wireless extender. so that picks up my wireless signal and outputs it through its onboard ethernet port to the server. This is the device : https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00NIUHAG6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 My computers and the server are connected to the wireless network to a virgin superhub router. i have tried connecting the server directly into the super hub router via a long ethernet cable but the problem still persists with slow transfer speeds. If anyone could help it would be greatly apreciated!
February 4, 20179 yr The wireless extender you're using only supports "fast Ethernet" -- i.e. 100Mb/s ... which can get a maximum transfer rate of just over 11MB/s. In addition, doing the transfers wirelessly is also a bottleneck, as few wireless connections can achieve anywhere near their theoretical rated speeds in real life. You'd get FAR better results if (a) you used a Gb router; and (b) you connected the server and connected PC's via wired Ethernet.
February 4, 20179 yr Author thanks for the reply, just tried wiring the server directly and my mac also directly and getting the speeds i want, guess im going to see how expensive it is to get an ethernet port put in my office which is the opposite corner to where it comes in the house.
February 4, 20179 yr You could "wire" your remote room with a powerline adapter. Not quite as good as an actual Cat-6 cable, but MUCH better than your wireless adapter. https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-PowerLINE-1000-Mbps-Gigabit/dp/B01929ESG6/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1486212611&sr=8-4&keywords=powerline%2Bnetwork%2Badapter&th=1
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