Slow file transfer using UTP cable.

[JC00]

When transferring files from both XP machines using a utp cable using a hub, I'm only getting around 10 or 20mbps of transfer speed. Is there a way to increase the speed?

My laptop displays the Local Area Connection under "Task Manager" as 1Gbps but I'm nowhere near those speeds.

What would be the best way to transfer files from one computer to another just in case a UTP's speed is that limited.

[Ob1]

how old is the hub? whats the model number of the hub? if its a 10mb hub then thats your bottleneck. the fastest you are going to achieve is 100 unless you are using a gigabit switch. try a different cable.

you are only as fast as the weakest (slowest) part of your connection.

[mojo]

You're not really going to get much more speed than that. I assume you mean "Megabytes per second" by mbps. The reason I ask is that a lowercase b actually means bits rather than bytes. Uppercase B means bytes. There are 8 bits in a byte, so 1 gigabit/s is only 128 megabytes/s, but that's only theoretical and doesn't happen in the real world. The theoretical limit of a 100 mb/s network is 12.5 MB/s, so anything above that is doing well. There are lots of things that will limit your speed including slow harddrives and just general latency within your computer. I have a highly tuned linux box sharing files using samba. Over my gigabit switch I generally get around 40 MB/s on file transfers, never more than 45 MB/s.

[mojo]

Just saw your post Ob1. Since his task manager reports the speed of the connection as 1 Gb/s I'm assuming he has a gigabit SWITCH and just used the word hub to mean "the thing I plug all the cables into." In addition to just lowering your expectations, make sure that the other computer is reporting 1 Gb/s as the connection speed too, otherwise you definitely won't get of 12.5 MB/s.