gigabit ethernet question

[Mike Bydalek]

What's the data you're transferring?  Lots of small files (ie
pictures) or large files (ISOs, MP4s, etc)?

What's the OS of each side?

The problem could be your cable as 1000BASE-T was made to work with
Cat5, but Cat5 wasn't designed to work for 1000BASE-T.

Regards,
Mike

On Feb 18, 2012, at 9:36 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have two computers sitting right next to each other connected via a 6 foot long piece of cat 5 I picked up at Wally World one day.  They both have gigabit ethernet cards in them.  Both machines recognize the connection as a gigabit connection, but I'm lucky to get half that.  Most of the time I get around 40%.
>
> Is there anything I can do to get the connection to work a bit faster?
>
> thanks
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