Miscellaneous laptop discussions : Laptop and Gigabit. . .
Laptop and Gigabit. . .
by Coryphaeus - 9/3/07 7:41 PMMy home network uses a Linksys WRT350N Gigabit/wireless router. My desktops are IBM ThinkCentres with on-board Gigabit and a home built web server with a Gigabit PC card. File/folder transfers are blazingly fast between desktops.
My IBM R-40 notebook has a built in 10/100 LAN and to get it up to speed I purchased a Netgear Gigabit PCMCIA card. Installed it, zero problems. It connects to my network and to the net.
As a "what if" test I transferred a 40 Meg folder from a desktop to the laptop. It took forever, over thirty seconds. The same folder between desktops took about four seconds. The same file using the 10/100 port on the laptop took about five seconds
Any thoughts as to why the folder transfer took so long via the Gigabit PCMCIA card?
Hard-drive speed?
by sashafroyland - 12/4/07 8:40 AM In reply to: Laptop and Gigabit. . . by CoryphaeusMaybe the laptop's hard-drive vs. the Desktop's hard-drive speed is the bottelneck. Try defragging the laptop's drive and retest. That speed test is disapointing. I'm purchasing a ga511 card today and will perform the same test - accross a gigibit network switch - netgear gs605.
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