I noticed that file sharing on my home network was capped at 100mbps. My internet was fine and running at 1gbps on all devices. This was my network before:

Comcast > Arris G34 Router > Devices

I decided to try this configuration instead:

Comcast > Arris G34 Router > TL-SG105 Switch > Devices

This got my file sharing up to 1gbps. This appears to prove that the router was bottlenecking file sharing speed in the old configuration.

I could just leave the switch in the network but there really isn’t room for it in my network panel. It would be better to just prevent the bottlenecking on the router but I am unsure how to do this.

  • DonkeyOfWallStreet@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I can’t find a manual but 4* 1gbps ports just means the sync speeds to your pc.

    That absolutely does not mean you can do 8gbps full duplex on all ports at the same time. But simple transfer between two PC’s should easily hit 1gbps.

    But 100mbps seems oddly specific. Like a computer was negotiated to 100mbps for whatever reason. Also what was the consistency of the files? Loads of small ones or one big file? Was it the same file set you tested on the tp link?