File Transfer at ~2MB/s

[aslange]

Hello!

I'm having some trouble to the slower file transfer rate.
It is about 2 MB/s when i'm trying to transfer from my Notebook with Win7 to the Amahi 7 server.
I'm trying to transfer multiple files.

I read another threads related but I cannot fully identify what is the problem.
I already Tried to change the network cables (they are CAT5 e) without any success.
I read about my NIC (it's a Realtek PCI r8168) and many threads tells to perform a downgrade in my installed driver (with is r8169).
In order to do that, since I accessing the server through ssh, every time I try to install the r8168 driver my connection is lost and since i'm using Amahi DHCP all my internet connection is lost and only returns after i restart my server (manually).

I tried to perform the downgrade with an keyboard and an monitor attached to the server, but Amahi does not recognizes my keyboard anymore.
I even cannot change the boot option in boot loader! (it keeps initializing the Fedora 19 (Schrödinger's cat))
I changed the GRUB file through ssh connection but when the server starts it selects Fedora 19 but it shows that it loaded Fedora 19 (Schrödinger's cat).

Could someone help me?
There is something more to do in order recover the previous state and just downgrade the NIC driver?

I need to transfer my files to the server (it's about 300 GB), but with this transfer speed it will take forever

Links that I read:
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1741
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3891

Link that I tried to follow:
http://superuser.com/questions/703994/h ... -8111-8168
http://nosemaj.org/hardy-r8168
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... ng-938571/
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=80757

Some configuration:

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# lshw -class network *-network description: Ethernet interface product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 logical name: p17p1 version: 03 serial: 00:01:6c:7b:c1:9b size: 100Mbit/s capacity: 1Gbit/s width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw ip=192.198.0.10 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s resources: irq:43 ioport:ee00(size=256) memory:fdbff000-fdbfffff memory:fdbf8000-fdbfbfff memory:fdb00000-fdb1ffff

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# ethtool p17p1 Settings for p17p1: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: No Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000033 (51) drv probe ifdown ifup Link detected: yes

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# uname -a Linux 192-198-0-108.static.radiolinkinternet.com 3.10.5-201.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 7 16:25:24 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks in advance!

[apastor]

Hello aslange

What is the CPU you have in your server?

Also are you using the onboard NIC? I would suggest to buy a gigbit NIC and use that.

[aslange]

My CPU:

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# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep CPU model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 430 @ 1.80GHz

Yes I'm using the onboard NIC.
I'll make some tests with a TP-Link TG-3269 Gigabit PCI NIC that I bought.

I'll share the results later.

Thank You!

[apastor]

My guess is you may need a CPU upgrade aswell

[aslange]

My guess is you may need a CPU upgrade aswell

Why do you think that?

My Server configuration meets Amahi minimal hardware requirements:

CPU 1.8 GHz
7 GB Hard Disk
1.5 GB RAM

http://docs.amahi.org/requirements.html

[apastor]

Yes that's correct, minimal.

Amahi does not promise Gigabit speeds though. That is, (mainly) a hardware requirement. So amahi will still work not a problem. But I think to get the full gigabit speeds you will need better hardware.

That's my guess. Try it and find out. That way, you will know for sure.