1000 base speeds?

[BirdyTheMighty]

what is the average speed of a 1000base router 

its max through put is 125MB/s however when transferring files i can only max out at ~60MB/s my current pc has gigabyte Ethernet and my server by the looks of it (using ethtool eth0) says its speed is 1000baseT. Is that normal

 

using a CAT 5 cable(though 20 meters long) 

[unijab]

If the NICs are connected at 1Gb. Then you are being limited by your CPU and/or disk writing/reading speeds.

[Enderman]

probably your HDD thats bottlenecking it

[BirdyTheMighty]

dunno 

the pc i'm using has an i5 4960k, the other pc is running on a Quad core 2 Q8300 hdd on that pc is 7200 5400rpm

[Blade of Grass]

Most likely the computers them selves cannot handle 125MB/s read/write. Also, keep in mind that depending on the protocol there is some overhead, so even if they could do it physically the protocol would likely limit it.

[dzonidev]

dunno 

the pc i'm using has an i5 4960k, the other pc is running on a Quad core 2 Q8300 hdd on that pc is 7200 5400rpm

 

I think it might be a PC on the other side. I've rarely seen a 5.4k go above 70MB/s

[safety12]

At home I can get write speeds from  my server to PC(vice Versa) at around 80-90MB/s using a gigabit switch to connect both with CAT5e cables. Server is a QNAP ts 251 with two 4tb 7200rpm in raid 1.My pc specs are not great either.

[LasersPewPew]

Gigabit's 125MB/s transfer speed is its theoretical maximum transfer rate. The actual throughput of gigabit is usually lower than that and you normally wouldn't be able to reach gigabit's theoretical limit because of network overhead, the type of connection and the read speed of your source.  You're assuming there will be 0 packet loss during transfer (which rarely ever happens, if ever) which causes the source to have to resend the same packet over causing the transfer rate to slow down. 

[Blade of Grass]

Gigabit's 125MB/s transfer speed is its theoretical maximum transfer rate. The actual throughput of gigabit is usually lower than that and you normally wouldn't be able to reach gigabit's theoretical limit because of network overhead, the type of connection and the read speed of your source. You're assuming there will be 0 packet loss during transfer (which rarely ever happens, if ever) which causes the source to have to resend the same packet over causing the transfer rate to slow down.

On your local ethernet network there should be 0 packet loss. If you have packet loss than there is an issues with either your ethernet cable or your switch.

[ChineseChef]

On your local ethernet network there should be 0 packet loss. If you have packet loss than there is an issues with either your ethernet cable or your switch.

 

I agree with this.  Local network should not have any packet loss.

 

And on an anecdotal note, I have gotten my Gb network up to 99+% usage before, and that was over 3 switches and really crappy cables.  So you should be almost at theoretical max on your network at home.  Thus your bottleneck will likely be the HDDs.