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Thank you for your incite as you sound like you have some experience here. I've been building my own computers since the 286 in 1984 and have worked on them for others since then also. I don't have any certifications but am not a dummy either. I'm still interested in why this network is so slow, but I'm down now to copying about another 130 gigs and am almost finished. This has been going on since about 4:30 this after noon. I figured it would take about 2-3 hrs at most. Since it only goes as fast as your slowest link, I'm going to have to do some more studying. I've changed cables and one leg was wireless for awhile until I went Ethernet. Nothing changed anything. No matter what I did it went 9-10mbs, never higher so something is limiting all the new hardware to something old.

I have a newer I7 machine with 24 gigs of memory that is reasonably fast on it's own, but the motherboard Ethernet still runs at 10mbs. I will be upgrading a Pci-E slot with a USB 3.0 soon that would have given me another route to go this time, but still, I dream of transferring a 2 gig movie from the bedroom to the living room in a couple of minutes instead of 10 minutes and leave the USB drives in the drawer. I've even thought about building a NAS but why do that if files run at 10MBS or slower?

You’re aware of these tools?

https://www.dslreports.com/tools

When I was in my last house, I made the mistake of believing I’d be there for more than a few more years and wired the whole house for gigabit and put the 24 port switch in a structured wiring cabinet in the hall closet. I did this for like reasons: I wanted a movie server instead of shuffling memory drives.

There’s a chance you might be able to isolate your problem with those tools.

Now I’m confused: I just reread your comment and saw that you wrote the following:

“but the motherboard Ethernet still runs at 10mbs”

You wrote in the OP,

“Both network cards are 100mbs”

What’s the story???