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Hey Everyone,

I know the topic of transfer speeds is discussed a lot, and I apologize if I am asking a question that has already been answered. But, as a total newbie, I am struggling to figure out how to try and address my issue. Here is the situation:

I recently installed Amahi 7 on an old PC that I had laying around. Computer is a Dell Dimension E321, 4 GB RAM, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+, 1 TB Hitachi hard drive. I followed the wiki on how to partition the hard drive, giving 500 MB to boot, 4 GB to swap, and the rest into root. I basically followed the installation guide and did not change anything. Everything seems to be working fine as I am able to log in, see the shares in my network, transfer files, etc.

When transferring files wirelessly over the network, I usually get around 1-2MB/sec transfer rates. I thought this was pretty slow, but figured it was all I could expect given the age of the hardware, load on my wireless router, and general setup. I do all transfers using copy/move functions in the Windows 8 network file explorer. Yesterday, I decided I wanted to move some files from one share to another. Again, using windows, I moved the files from one share to another, and again was getting ~1 MB/sec transfer. This seemed really odd to me and seems to suggest that something in my setup may be causing slow transfers. I would think that moving files around on the HDA itself (and not transferring them from one machine/hard drive to another) would have been much, much faster.

Any suggestions? Really appreciate the help!

When using Windows Explorer, regardless if you are moving files on the same machine you are going through Samba. That adds an addition layer of complexity of course and will result in just as slow speeds as moving from one machine to another. If you want files to move quicker, recommend you use command line. There are several pages on the internet that will provide the correct command syntax if needed.

Many things that can affect transfer speed. Network card, network itself, speed of the actual HDA hardware as well. If you would like to try and improve things, you can refer to the make Samba go faster wiki guidance.

It may or may not help. We have most things already optimized in Amahi 7, but there may be some other items mentioned here that could help.