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It's probably the write speed of the destination drive, 2.5" drives can be shockingly slow. That or you are running at 100Mb/s instead of 1Gb/s in which case 12MB/s is the maximum you'd see.
Remember, Ethernet speeds are bits (b) and your are quoting bytes for your transfer speed (B).
Remember, Ethernet speeds are bits (b) and your are quoting bytes for your transfer speed (B).
if you post up the make/model of each laptop (or google them) you can see what their adapter max speeds are.... if they're old laptops then you might be limited to 100mbit (as above, about 12meg/sec if you're lucky)
if they're old laptops, then 11 to 12meg/sec is about all you can hope for :-(
if they're old laptops, then 11 to 12meg/sec is about all you can hope for :-(
to be fair, as long as you're not in a hurry... leave it going wonder off and do something else
if you have lots of different files to copy, just set them all going at the same time... ok that'll kick your disk speeds ass... just means you have to keep reading that book, gardening, or whatever you were doing while it copies
if it's just one file, and a one off, then by the time you stop and restart it a few times while you change settings it could probably be done
also, 2.5inch disk (oldish I'm guessing?) you'll probably top out at 40 or 50meg anyway
(hard drive laptops are made for efficiency over speed)
if you have lots of different files to copy, just set them all going at the same time... ok that'll kick your disk speeds ass... just means you have to keep reading that book, gardening, or whatever you were doing while it copies
if it's just one file, and a one off, then by the time you stop and restart it a few times while you change settings it could probably be done
also, 2.5inch disk (oldish I'm guessing?) you'll probably top out at 40 or 50meg anyway
(hard drive laptops are made for efficiency over speed)
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That way you automatically end up with an additional copy of your files (on the USB stick) which is always a Good Thing.
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I suspect this is the case, I'm moving things from an HP Pavillion g6 (Only a few years old but incredibly slow running, I'm not sure if that will affect this though) to an Acer Aspire 5742 (Probably getting on for about 10 years old
).That's what I usualy do but I didn't have a big enough removable drive.
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Okay, thanks
.I don't really need it faster, I just wasn't sure why it was a tenth of the speed I expected.
Just out of curiosity, why does ethernet use bits when everything else is measured in bytes?
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To make it sound better.
It's really a measure of the speed of the bitstream rather than the number of databytes transferred, if you transfer 10MBytes of data there will be more actual bits flying back and forth than 10 x 8 = 80 Mbits due to transfer protocols and error checking &c
It also makes a difference what protocol you use, NFS is usually quite a bit faster than SAMBA on equal hardware setups, however because I use Linux I tend to just push files with SCP rather than have a NFS server software running constantly as my server is busy enough running other stuff.
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No, my brother used to play online games with it which always seems to ruin computers and I download torrents on it now which probably isn't helping. Its also got loads of crap that opens on startup that I've never bothered to remove (Norton 360, Adobe creative cloud, etc). A factory reset is all it needs.
click start
click run
type msconfig
press return
click the services tab at the top, then click the "hide all microsoft services" tick box at the bottom left... it'll leave you with a list of services that run at startup.... untick anything you don't need (probably most stuff)
click startup tab at the top, then go down that list and do the same, again you can probably untick most stuff
(if you decide you need something later on, you can come back and re-tick it later)
(same thing will help anyone else reading this too!)
if you want to remove norton... http://www.nortonsecurityonline.com/security-center/norton-removal-tool.html
(just uninstalling it doesn't work, you need to use that tool, norton is the worst virus out there)
:-)
