Network copy

[Doomulation]

Does anyone know of any good utility for copying data over network? On a 100 mbps line, it seems a shame that you can't get more than 5 MB/s (or 40 mpbs). I'm guessing that it's because of network protocol overhead, but so again, I don't do network apps, so I don't know...

[Toasty]

If you're just transferring files, you could try using an FTP server on the PC you want to share from. I don't know that it's particularly superior to Windows' regular file-sharing (I'm assuming that's what you're using now?) but sometimes when Windows doesn't want to cooperate I've used it. This (http://www.snapfiles.com/get/quicktftp.html) is the one I used, but there are plenty to chose from (http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/server/fwftpserver.html). Just run the server on one computer and then browse to that computer's IP address on your network to download files from it. (For example: ftp://192.168.1.100.) It's not too horribly time-consuming to set up, provided you know what you're doing.

[Derek]

If you have a system account on that computer, or it's a share, you could just use robocopy.

[smcd]

I second the ftp thing... they are relatively painless to set up and use and from my experiences seem to be faster than using windows shares. filezilla has both a client and server available (Free), and cerberus ftp is free for personal use (server)

[Doomulation]

So far I've tried FTP. Speeds were about 4.5 MB/s.

[smcd]

At work I usually get speeds of 4 - 10MB over a 100mbps network using ftp.

[Doomulation]

This time I transfered Vista to Vista, wired to wireless, and I got from 6.50 - 7.95 MB/s. New record. This wasn't FTP, btw.