program for testing network speed?

[Craig83]

My home network in the UK consists of a fibre connection around 36 mb/s into a router wifi modem all in one. I then have the last series of the same router reconfigured to run as slave and another doing the same and configured the same. I have the wifi channels set so im not fighting with any other local signals in terms of channels on the 3 units. All are set on different channels and the house is properly cabled and boxed using cat5e.

 

When updating mass storage from one pc to another i found i was only getting around 12mb/s transfer speed from my old pc to my new one.

As a result of that i did another test with my laptop and got about the same via cable and as low as 2-3mb/s via wifi.

Is there an issue? is it just the read speeds of the old HDD on my old laptop and PC?

 

The pc's were connected one directly into my main router and one into the wall plug in another room so still directly back to my main hub not via a second router. same with my laptop.

 

[theereal]

Please make sure you use mb/Mb/MB correctly. Is your connection really only mb on a fiber conection? Or Is It Mb?

[Altecice]

For testing local speeds you want to use Iperf 

https://iperf.fr/

[Craig83]

my apologies for the incorrect terminology but im sure you knew exactly what i meant...

[Craig83]

my connection on windows says 100.0Mbps

[Craig83]

all 3 of my routers are the same 10/100Mbps speed rating

[leadeater]

A network connection speed of 100Mbps is 12.5MB/s. Windows reports file transfers in Megabytes Per Second (MB/s) and network devices report connection speeds in Megabits Per Second (Mbit/s). Your internet connection will also be rated as 36Mbit/s.

 

If you want faster file transfers upgrade your network equipment to 1Gbit/s supported devices. The current Cat5e you have will support the faster connection speed just fine, assuming the old computer has a 1Gbit/s NIC.

 

Also make sure you test transfer speeds using either a single large file or use iperf, iperf being the preferred option as it won't hit HDD bottlenecks. Small file transfers are always slow, even to an extent on SSD storage.

[Craig83]

yeah thanks for the info. I realised as soon as i thought about it that the info is given to me in various formats that basically add up to the same.

I also agree the runs around my place are not too long at all. i think the longest pair are somewhere in the 12-15m length so i should be able to run gigabit lan easily enough.

Thing is though that because ive got 3x all in ones the signal is solid because of the fact the devices plug into one and the all in one then sends the signal to the master. If i use a plug which goes directly back to my master (i only have one) the speed is ever so slightly lower (0.5Mb/s) on average. i also like the fact i have 3 access points which are only used for phones and or tablets, all set on the same ID and PW so i seemlessly pass from one to another on wifi all without the phone knowing its switched. I do use 3 separate channels but thats it. If i go to gigabit (which id like) then id get alot faster speeds to and from my NAS and also from PC to laptop etc but to keep things as they are id need 3x all in ones. AND my IP provider is notoriously anti anything but their own hardware