100 feet is pretty long; it will sometimes degrade 100 mbps to 10 mbps.
the wire’s speed might be that much, but the hard drives at either end, not to mention antivirus and such, is the bottleneck.
Transfer speed is limited by the slowest component. Could be either the from or to disk drive.
Make sure the hardware is actually set to the highest transfer rate, many cards and switches default to 10mbps.
Why are you running Cat 5 and hard-wiring the system?
you can check to see if the network card settings are correct
you say your router “should” did you check to see what it was set at?
I am assuming there is no wireless in the mix ?
I know it is unlikely but do you have an old cat4 cable anywhere in the mix?
Do you have the aptitude to change your network adapters off of auto negotiate and manually set to 100mbps?
Assuming you’re Windows, sometimes cheap routers/hubs fail at auto negotiation. Try manually setting both to 100 and see if it solves the problem. Otherwise it’s likely whatever hardware is between. Try hard booting that first, of course.
you might not need to use a crossover cable, most recent cards will autodetect, for sure they will if they are gig cards
Oh and if you’re going to run cable then be sure to use the more versatile cat6 rather than cat5.
Forget the speed just make sure it’s done right
Note the LEDS of both router ports.
Then, hard code both network cards to 100Mb. (Often, they’re defaulted to AUTO.)
Note LEDS again.
If no change in speed, try restarts on both machines before moving on. Especially if they’re Windows machines.
Hope it helps...
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.” ― Andrew S. Tannenbaum
First of all, reading comprehension for this bunch of commenters is crap.
Your WIFI is slow. 2.4 Ghz I assume? You could try changing to a different channel. 100 ft 2.4G with a router in the middle... gonna be slow. Assuming the router is in the middle and each getting 30ish, 10 is to be expected with packet collisions, etc. If not on antique WIFI even AC can be slow. Mesh is slower yet but they lie about it for marketing.
Here is a thought: Storage is so cheap you could throw a drive in one (an external USB drive) and then walk it over to the other for MUCH less money than a 100ft of cable.***
Here is another thought: Move the router next to one computer, move the other computer over and just do a short cable transfer via the ehernet.
100 ft of cat5 is ridiculous unless you are in a big building.
*** best solution.
(Also check that the wire doesn’t run close to any fluorescent lights.)
You might try putting a cheap switch in the middle, 50’ from one side to the switch, 50’ from the switch to the other side...it’ll act as a repeater.
Maybe get a cheap USB drive and do it
Did you check your “white privilege”? (J/K)
A hard disk drive is mechanical.
With cache, they are good for short bursts of 20-40Mbps; but for sustainable transfers you are going to see 8-12 Mbps, depending upon the size of the disk, and physical location on the disk, the data is being written
The disk is circular, so data at the inside of the disk is marginally faster access.
If you want/need faster sustained data transfers; I suggest solid state drives. They are about 20x faster, with the newer ones being even faster
Does your router have multiple ethernet ports? Is your 10 Mbs LAN a repeater or switch?
Most routers these days have at least a 100 Mbs multi-port switch built in.
A different approach would be to backup all the files on a portable device like a USB terabyte storage and then load the data onto the other system.
If they are Win7 machines and you have a wireless connection for each, you can network them and just pull the files from one to the other - or leave them where they are and just access them from the other machine. I think it can be done with Win10, but the process isn’t as straightforward.