Topic: home network ftp speeds

[dmonterisi]

i followed some advice in one of the networking threads and set up an ftp server on my laptop to transfer 24/96 wav files to my main pc.  compression on the files was taking forever on the laptop so i gave up.  the wav files total about 8 gigs.  i'm transferring over a linksys router/wireless adapter (both pcs wired to the router).  i'm using serv-u > smart-ftp.  i'm getting speeds just under 5000KB/s.  Is this the optimal speed?  gonna take about 25 mins to get all 8 gigs transferred which isn't too bad, just checking to make sure i got it set up right.

-damon

[nic]

your sustaining 40Mb/s, roughly half of the network peak.

with Windows machines, I find they rarely sustain over 50% of the throughput, whereas Mac and *Nix usually sustain about 75% or so of peak throughput.

there are some reg tweaks to increase the throughput of the TCP stack in Windows, but I dont have any links on hand

fyi, no matter what system you use, you will never sustain peak throughput on a network(unless your throwing thousands of $$$ into high-end interconnects on a gigabit LAN)