Chris Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 How can I mesaure the speed of my home network, see how efficent it is and generally improve it's performance.DESKTOP: 10/100 LANLAPTOP: 11Mbps Centrinio [signal stenght Excellent]Connected to a DG834G Browsing my shared drive would seem to take a bit longer then I wanted and transferring files between desktop and laptop, well not sure what the theoretical maximum would be with the lower speed being from the Centrinio.When I do transfer files the time takes varies...Anyway to speed it up.A bit general I know.XP Home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 In truth, to do this properly involves some very expensive monitoring software and hardware.The simplest way for home networks, would be to get out your calculator and do the sums, then time file copies between machines. Not forgetting that network speeds are rated in bits. So as an example, a 1.44 Mb file is actually 12,091,312 bits, 11mbps is 11,000,000 bits per second, so you can see that really you need to do this with bigger files and a quick finger, as the above example would only take 1.01 seconds.You could also try using windows built in system monitor (nee perfmon), in administrator tools, or I found this free download Racoonworks which may or may not be any good.Mr. M.PS generally, the term Bandwidth is used instead of speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 So a 3,610,509,312 byte file would be 28884074496 bits? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Yep, that's correct, and it should theoretically take only 43 minutes 46 seconds to transfer if your wireless connection is running perfectly :D Yeah, right, you wish :lol: That will take over an hour in reality on your wireless connection.Mr. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 We'll see in a minute ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Well I don't know about the minute, but I've given you just over an hour :D So I guess it's official, your network is SLOW :rolleyes: :D :P Mr. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 Well I don't know about the minute, but I've given you just over an hour :D So I guess it's official, your network is SLOW :rolleyes: :D :P Mr. M.:lol: Well it was up and down and I got fed up when it went stable at 180 minutes...Not waiting 3 hours.How long would it take 100mbps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 Somewhere around the 5 minute mark would be good.PS Don't take any notice of windows efforts to predict the remaining time :lol: It's usually totally inaccurate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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