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I'm not looking for intelligent copy w/ resume & all that good stuff, just raw speed over the network. I've got GBs upon GBs of files I copy all the time from the PC upstairs to the PC downstairs, both wired w/ a gigabit connection & switch between them. SMB copies are slow, maxing out at around 10MB/s, netting me around 30GB/hr. There's got to be a faster way. Thoughts?

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Check each machine's network card settings and make sure the speed of the cards are both set to 1000Mb/Full Duplex. I have found that sometimes when cards are left on 'autoneg' they can seem to get confused and not agree on the fastest transfer mode.

As for type of transfer, when MicTech says FTP is simpler, I think what he means is as FTP transfer set up a separate transfer connection. The data transfers quicker because there is less overhead in the FTP protocol. The SMB protocol isn't famed for its efficiency, there is a lot more protocol overhead.

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Hmmm. 10megaBYTES per second sounds like 100baseT throughput to me, not gigabit. Perhaps you should check your nic/switch settings? I'm using a gigabit netgear switch with jumbo frame support in windows 7.. I'm don't remember exactly offhand what kind of throughput i'm getting, but its SIGNIFICANTLY more than 10 megabytes per second.

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I think simplest way is FTP, because FTP is designed for file transfer :)

You can use some of free FTP servers for that.
https://superuser.com/questions/12869/best-opensource-ftp-software

And here is good article about home network and file transfers from Scott Hanselman
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WiringTheHouseForAHomeNetworkPart5GigabitThroughputAndVista.aspx

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  • Simple I've already got, I need fast.
    – Greg Hurlman
    Commented Feb 26, 2010 at 21:15
  • First link is down
    – storm
    Commented May 30, 2016 at 15:10
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You could try a crossover cable.

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  • Crossover cables are usually not necessary for gigabit Ethernet: "Gigabit and faster Ethernet links over twisted pair cable use all four cable pairs for simultaneous transmission in both directions. For this reason, there are no dedicated transmit and receive pairs, and consequently, crossover cables are never required for 1000BASE-T communication." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-dependent_interface#Auto-MDIX
    – User
    Commented Jan 10, 2016 at 2:30

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