Help? Local Network transfer speeds

[ChubbyCheeks]

Recently brought a gigabit switch so i can do file tranfers between two pcs and have wired internet acess problem comes when my file transfer speeds are 1/MBs.  All cables are cat5e and all ports are gigabit capable any advice??

 

Switch im using:https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07V5QDJP3/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Lurick]

2 minutes ago, Not Wills said:

Cat 5e I think is 100mb/s

Cat5e is gigabit unless wires are damaged

[Lurick]

6 minutes ago, ChubbyCheeks said:

Recently brought a gigabit switch so i can do file tranfers between two pcs and have wired internet acess problem comes when my file transfer speeds are 1/MBs.  All cables are cat5e and all ports are gigabit capable any advice??

 

Switch im using:https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07V5QDJP3/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

What kind of files? Small files or a single large file?

[ChubbyCheeks]

Mostly Video files varing from few 100MB to upwards of 40GB

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, ChubbyCheeks said:

Mostly Video files varing from few 100MB to upwards of 40GB

I would poke around in the NIC settings and see if EEE or power saving is turned on and try turning it off and checking the speeds again.

[ChubbyCheeks]

2 minutes ago, Lurick said:

I would poke around in the NIC settings and see if EEE or power saving is turned on and try turning it off and checking the speeds again.

Sorry didnt mention this in original post but i can get Gigabit speed if i conncent the Pc directly to eachother its only when doing though the switch speed drop dramaticly from 70MB/s to 1MB/s which means im assuming both the nics are fine and its somthing to do with how the switch interacts with my home broadband and the two pcs 

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, ChubbyCheeks said:

Sorry didnt mention this in original post but i can get Gigabit speed if i conncent the Pc directly to eachother its only when doing though the switch speed drop dramaticly from 70MB/s to 1MB/s which means im assuming both the nics are fine and its somthing to do with how the switch interacts with my home broadband and the two pcs 

Yah, the switch uses EEE and power saving features and I've seen them cause issues so that's why you might want to disable it on the NIC so the switch can't force power saving or anything.

[ChubbyCheeks]

5 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Yah, the switch uses EEE and power saving features and I've seen them cause issues so that's why you might want to disable it on the NIC so the switch can't force power saving or anything.

Any advice or a link on the easyest way to do this?

[Lurick]

1 minute ago, ChubbyCheeks said:

Any advice or a link on the easyest way to do this?

Just go into the NIC properties under:

Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections

Right click on the NIC > Properties > Configure > Advanced

[Senzelian]

6 minutes ago, ChubbyCheeks said:

Any advice or a link on the easyest way to do this?

1. Open Device-Manager
2. Right click your Network Interface Card (NIC)
3. Open Properties
4. Open the Energy tab
5. Disable "Computer can deactivate the device to safe energy" (Or whatever it is called in english)

I doubt that it will help, but I'm up for a pleasent surprise. 

 

Edit:
I should note that

1. just because your PC's NIC won't go to sleep, doesn't mean that the switch's NIC won't go to sleep
2. NICs go only to sleep when no data is transfered. As soon as you transfer data, they will wake up again.

 

 

So what I find interesting is that you said that when you take the switch out of the equation you would get the full speed.

How did you do that? Did you set up your own subnet and did you use a crossover cable?

[akio123008]

1 hour ago, Senzelian said:

1. did you use a crossover cable?

If the computers don't do auto-mdi not using a crossover cable would be a problem, but then it wouldn't be slow, it just wouldn't work at all.

 

Have you checked the link is set to gigabit at all?

I.e. in this window does it say "speed: 1gbps"?

[Senzelian]

3 minutes ago, akio123008 said:

If the computers don't do auto-mdi not using a crossover cable would be a problem, but then it wouldn't be slow, it just wouldn't work at all.

I know.
I asked for a different reason.

[ChubbyCheeks]

1 hour ago, Lurick said:

Just go into the NIC properties under:

Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections

Right click on the NIC > Properties > Configure > Advanced

 

1 hour ago, Senzelian said:

1. Open Device-Manager
2. Right click your Network Interface Card (NIC)
3. Open Properties
4. Open the Energy tab
5. Disable "Computer can deactivate the device to safe energy" (Or whatever it is called in english)

I doubt that it will help, but I'm up for a pleasent surprise. 

 

Edit:
I should note that

1. just because your PC's NIC won't go to sleep, doesn't mean that the switch's NIC won't go to sleep
2. NICs go only to sleep when no data is transfered. As soon as you transfer data, they will wake up again.

 

 

So what I find interesting is that you said that when you take the switch out of the equation you would get the full speed.

How did you do that? Did you set up your own subnet and did you use a crossover cable?

 

5 minutes ago, akio123008 said:

If the computers don't do auto-mdi not using a crossover cable would be a problem, but then it wouldn't be slow, it just wouldn't work at all.

 

Have you checked the link is set to gigabit at all?

I.e. in this window does it say "speed: 1gbps"?

Disabled EEE and power saving features to no luck unfortunatly, for how i set up just the two pcs i used this guide: https://techwiser.com/how-to-connect-pc-to-pc-lan-cable/ 

Have since set it all back to automatic. 

 

As for what my conncetion shows as its Showing as 10mbps which i also dont understand why its showing that speed any idea on how the set it to gigabit?

[akio123008]

4 minutes ago, ChubbyCheeks said:

As for what my conncetion shows as its Showing as 10mbps which i also dont understand why its showing that speed any idea on how the set it to gigabit?

I have a computer (that no one cares about so it doesn't matter for me) that is hooked up through an extremely cheap cable. That PC keeps switching between 100mbit and gigabit. It may be a crappy or broken cable between a switch and one of the computers (which perhaps you didn't notice with the direct link, because for that you happened to use the good cable)

 

Edit: to answer the question more directly, you can't set the speed yourself, the NIC detects the quality of the connection and automatically picks the setting for you. On a cat5e cable with gigabit NICs and a gigabit switch, it should just be set to gigabit.

[ChubbyCheeks]

4 minutes ago, akio123008 said:

I have a computer (that no one cares about so it doesn't matter for me) that is hooked up through an extremely cheap cable. That PC keeps switching between 100mbit and gigabit. It may be a crappy or broken cable between a switch and one of the computers (which perhaps you didn't notice with the direct link, because for that you happened to use the good cable)

THANK YOU!!!! one cable later and im getting trasfer speeds of 70-80mbps again sorry for being a idiot apriciate all the help everyone 

[Lurick]

Just now, ChubbyCheeks said:

THANK YOU!!!! one cable later and im getting trasfer speeds of 70-80mbps again sorry for being a idiot apriciate all the help everyone 

Haha, no worries, glad it was an easy fix