How can I get Better Speeds Over my Home Network?

[1112e]

Right now I am getting this 

I know my connection goes faster, and the usb drive I am using should be able to go much faster. 

Router is Asus RT-AC68U

[RZeroX]

Need more details like wired or wifi?

[1112e]

I'm on wifi AC, but I can easily get a solid 120 Mbps, which is the limit of my internet speed

[X1XNobleX1X]

I'm on wifi AC, but I can easily get a solid 120 Mbps, which is the limit of my internet speed

Your internet speed has nothing to do with your transfer speed.

[stconquest]

MB/s are different from Mb/s... wow, complaints that a 2GB file takes 5 minutes... times have changed.  :lol:

 

..also as Noble said, your personal speed might not be the limiting factor.

[VolkA]

Right now I am getting this 

 

I know my connection goes faster, and the usb drive I am using should be able to go much faster. 

Router is Asus RT-AC68U

Downloading stuff from internet usually depends on 2 factors. 1 would be your internet speed and number 2 will be the speed of the server that host the file you are downloading.

 

Even if you have 1gbps for your home internet but the server you are download from has limit it's uploading speed, your download speed will still be very slow. 

 

With regards to your case, you mentioned that your home internet is 120 megabit per second, therefore = 120/8 = 15megabyte per second. Do also take note that it is up to 15 megabyte per second and not guarantee at 15 megabyte per second.

[VolkA]

MB/s are different from Mb/s... wow, complaints that a 2GB file takes 5 minutes... times have changed.  :lol:

 

..also as Noble said, your personal speed might not be the limiting factor.

I know right. I remember last time download a 5 megabyte song took me about 30 mins. those were the days.

[1112e]

I'm transferring a file from my PC to another storage device in my home network. I should be getting at least 15 MBps, considering I can almost get that much downloading over the internet

[RZeroX]

I'm transferring a file from my PC to another storage device in my home network. I should be getting at least 15 MBps, considering I can almost get that much downloading over the internet

You won't get the same speed when downloading and when transferring files move to wired or just deal with the speed.

[VolkA]

I'm transferring a file from my PC to another storage device in my home network. I should be getting at least 15 MBps, considering I can almost get that much downloading over the internet

Oh ...... Ok ..... My bad. 

 

*Awkwardly runs away*

[dzonidev]

Are by any chance using your router as a file server?

[DerBernd]

What is the machine you are copying to? If the target can't keep up with writing (a myriad of reasons are possible) you won't use the full capacity of your wifi.

[techguru]

your using the asus ac68u right...update the firmware to the merlin build..will fix alot of the bugs in the router

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/bkfq2a6aebq68/Asuswrt-Merlin

[r3bify]

If you're transferring the files between two computers over wifi, you're going to get about the speed you would get if you were using a USB2 flash drive. Plug both computers into your router with ethernet cables and the transfer speed will be much higher. 

Over wifi, I could transfer files between my two laptops at about the same speed you're getting. I plugged both of them into my switch and I transfer at ~110MB/s, solid. 

[DerBernd]

That is not entirely true. Wifi dongles with the AC wifi standard have a USB 3.0 plug. USB 3.0 is up to 5 Gigabit. If you use a mPCIe wifi card you have a 1x PCIe connection with the corresponding bandwith. What I want to say is: the connector type for a USB device is more often than not not the bottleneck.

 

OP mentioned that he is using 802.11ac and not 802.11g what your speeds suggest.

 

@ OP: Bad transfer speeds over wifi can be due to unclean air. Meaning a lot of other radio signals from other wifi routers on the 5Ghz band and possibly other stuff. Do not think signal strength in this case. The wifi standard was designed to be polite, it stops to transmit when someone else is transmitting. Something like talking with 6 friends at a table, only one can talk at a time.

 

Take your 5Ghz enabled Smartphone and take a look at the readout of the app wifi analyzer that shows you the other wifi ssid's in the area and their channel.

[1112e]

My 5ghz network is the only one in the area. Wifi analyser picks up no others 

[Nowak]

The most important thing remember is that megabits (Mb) and megabytes (MB) are two different sizes. 15MB is the fastest you're going to get on a 120Mbps connection.

 

Also, have you tried wired? Do you have any Cat5e cables handy? I find wireless to be very finicky, especially over long distances.