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Re: Data transfer speeds

Subject: Re: Data transfer speeds
From: Rob Morley
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:22:49 +0100
Newsgroups: uk.comp.home-networking

In article <EPbmi.35938$_14.5959@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 'Nel' 
nelftm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> I've currently got around 40GB of files copying from my PC (XP Pro) to my 
> brother's laptop (Vista Home Premium) running through my Linksys WRT54GS 
> wireless router - Cat5, not wireless.
> 
> It's currently chugging along at 1.64MB/Sec, has been going now for 2 hours 
> and is reporting another 7 hours to go!
> 
> Is this the going rate for that amount of data?

Should be faster than that if everything's working properly.

>  Seems painfully slow to me for a hard wire set up! 
> 
I wonder if you'd do better to use FTP rather than Explorer.

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