Is there any software that can easily transfer 1GB files over a home network easily.

Question

I have tried sharing files, (using windows vista ultimate) but when I use a large file after about 3 mins of slow tranfering (fricken 100MB/sec my *** over an ethernet cable) through a router, it just fails. I have no way to transfer something big over my network other then like a Flash drive or an external harddrive, but that pisses me off. Also then I was wondering if anyone knew how to transfer 1GB files over the internet to another computer (like to my friends house), I have tried making a website type thing useing Apache webserver to download stuff. But it goes only up to 32-60KB/SEC downloading at my friends house so he should just use like a torrent instead because taht goes faster. Thanks for any insight!

Answer 1

.A wired connection through a router/hub/switch should give very good data transfer rates and easily transfer any size that will fit.

If you are getting that kind of data transfer rate and crashes I'd check these first:

1.  Norton antivirus - if you are running it on either machine, that is 75% chance IT is the problem.

2.  Bad network card drivers on either machine... check for updates.

3.  Bad network cable.  It might work for slower transfers like internet access but give too many errors at full-speed, causing a lot of resent packets.

4.  Bad router/hub/switch

5.  Disable any firewalls (windows or "after market", including any that came with any Anti Virus programs.)

Answer 2

The best way to do this is to use a flash drive. That is the only way that you will get a fast connection to transfer that large of a file. The 100 mb/s connection is the speed at which you are connected to your router, that doesn't mean that is what speed you will transfer files at.

You can get a gigabit router with a gigabit NIC and you will get a better transfer rate. But that can get a little expensive.

The reason that you get a slow transfer rate at your friends house is because of his Internet connection.

A torrent will probably not work is because a torrent relies on more then one person to get a faster speed. If you used a torrent, you would only be downloading from one person. That means that you would only be getting the same connection as a direct download.

You could try burn the files to a DVD, that would allow you to transfer the files. That would allow you to burn 4.8 GB to a single disc. But the transfer rate is slow as well, around 10-20 mb/s.

Other then the flash drive, I can't really think of anything else that wouldn't cost an arm and a leg.

Answer 3

i agree with the guy above . solid points, To transfer large file over the internet use a ftp server . eg SERV U

Answer 4

I assume your router is running at 100Mbps, which is only 12.5 MiB per second maximum transfer rate. The complete failure is interesting, does everything stop working on your router, or just the file transfer? A 1 GiB file should transfer over Fast Ethernet in under 2 minutes for sure.

Uploading large files over the Internet on a consumer connection is simply slow; 32-60 KiB per second sounds about right, since that would likely be using all of your upload bandwidth.

You could run a network analysis program like Iperf to check what your max bandwidth is within your network, and get stats like dropped packets, etc.