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LAN transfer speed capped at 100mbps

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Do both of these notebooks have Gigabit ethernet cards? What type of cable are you using? (Cat 5, 5e, 6, 7…?)

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Don't know why, but sometimes the transfer speed reaches upto 3-500 Megabytes/sec, but sometimes it stays capped at 10 Megabytes/sec. Now I am in a hurry, but the transfer rate is slow. I use ethernet cable to connect two laptops and transfer data from each other. Let me know how to get higher transfer speeds always. Also, the files I transfer are large files, so it's not because of so many small files.

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Do both of these notebooks have Gigabit ethernet cards? What type of cable are you using? (Cat 5, 5e, 6, 7…?)

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@ShovonKhan

Please quote or tag  @Ben17 if you want to see a reply.

If I don't reply it's probly because I am in a different time zone or haven't seen your message yet but I will reply when I see it ? 

 

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3 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Do both of these notebooks have Gigabit ethernet cards? What type of cable are you using? (Cat 5, 5e, 6, 7…?)

Just found out it was the cable issue ?
Thanks for the reply. It reminded me to change it and check.

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1 minute ago, ShovonKhan said:

Just found out it was the cable issue ?
Thanks for the reply. It reminded me to change it and check.

 

glad you figured it out ? 

Please quote or tag  @Ben17 if you want to see a reply.

If I don't reply it's probly because I am in a different time zone or haven't seen your message yet but I will reply when I see it ? 

 

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Make sure both laptops have 1 gbps network cards.  Gigabit network cards support auto detection of pairs so you can use a regular ethernet cable.

If one of them has 100mbps ethernet card, then you need to use a crossover cable (or just cut a short patch cable in the middle and rearrange the wires in the crossover format, it will work)

 

Gigabit will give you up to 125 MB/s transfer speed.

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