Slow Transfer Speeds from WHS Fixed with Jumbo Frames

Posted on Sunday, June 14 2009 @ 0:10 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

I have been playing with my home server for more than a year now and I have always just dealt with the slow transfer speeds to and from my server, until now. I have a gigabit switch (Linksys EG005W) and I am running Cat6 to all my machines that host gigabit adapters. With that said, I would consistently only get 20-30 % throughput on my network. Now I get 40-50% throughput and sustain transfer speeds of around 60+MB/s by simply enabling Jumbo Frames!

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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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