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Re: New router, slow(er) file transfer between PCs
05/02/12 11:26 PM
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> Ethernet is a broadcast protocol. In the absence of a switch, everything on the > network sees all the packets all the time, and has the opportunity to > interfere/collide with them. In your specific case, something's probably generating > extraneous packets that wasn't before - a neighbor is running something ill-behaved, > or your ISP is doing a malware scan, or someone's leeching your WiFi, or you're > running a torrent on one of your PCs.
I haven't been running a torrent during file transfers.
Far as I know, my wifi requires the passcode. Did for me to connect to it.
Why would my ISP be running a scan? - I've signed up for no such services. And, would they be doing it automatically when files are being transferred? - because it's the same each time with this unit.
There are only two PCs active on the network, in this case one sending, the other copying.
Again, there was no issue with my old router. Perhaps it was more isolatory?. (I could go back to the old set-up, I need wifi hardly ever, but having one unit is convenient.)
** Transferring 640MB in two minutes works out to 5MB per second. That's so bad it's not even ass. I should be getting at least 1Mbit transfer speed, right? Both have SATA drives, by the way. **
Consider it high comedy....sincere tragedy....whatever...don't take it personally.
The Culture
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