My Home Wired Network

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CLGW

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I have currently set-up my wired home network using the usural network protocols. However, I need yet to optimize something to take full advantage.

I am aware that I am on a SpeedTouch 585 ADSL router capable of speeds of up to 54Mbps wireless, however I am not on wireless now, I have two sparkling yellow ethernet cables connected to the router through two of my PCs that I have networked.

I was under the impression that ethernet cables speeds can go up to 100Mbps if I am not mistaken. However, this is not the case in my point, I have only achieved a maximum throughput of up to 81Mbps. You may think that the remaining ~20Mbps or so is not much but it is for large data files (In the 100s GBs that will take 20% less time) that needs to be sent.
Now I was wondering if I am missing some sort of tweak to bump the extra bits or is this simply a Windows issue?

Please help :D Much appreciative!
 
Personally on any 100mbs catVe based network i've never seen better than an ~80% throughput while moving files larger than 10gb's around.

I'd be very interested if anyone see's a way to improve on this :D
 
CLGW said:
is this speeds that I will be normally expecting from these cables?
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yeah, check out this thread, 100mb/s (megabits per second) is the theoretical maximum speed of CAT5e cable, however the theoretical maximum speed is never actually achived theoretical maximum speed is how fast data can flow under ideal circumstances[ot]things like temparature and stuff will affect the actual speed achived[/ot]
 
If transfer speed is going to be an issue you could upgrade your wired network to a 1000mbs one, if you have used catVe cable then you can leave all that in and just get uprated NIC's and routers/switches.

This does cost more but might be an option to consider.
 
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