fastest way to transfer data to remote drive

**applegrew** · May 3rd, 2008

I have a 500GB Maxtor SATA drive attached to my Desktop computer. It has an ext3 partition that I need to access over the network (Wifi). When I transfer data to the drive by the direct connection to it (over USB), the transfer rate is on average 10MBps, but when I transfer data to the drive over the network the transfer rate is dismal (about 1.3MBps)!

I am accessing the drive using samba. What other ways exists to access my drive over the network, and which is the fastest one?

**tamoneya** · May 3rd, 2008

1.3 MBps is pretty fast for a wifi connection. As for networks you are not going to be able to acheive anywhere near the speeds you get if it is just a local harddrive to harddrive transfer,

**applegrew** · May 3rd, 2008

Isn't wifi have capacity for 54Mbps? That translates to 6.75MBps. Full bandwidth is never utilized but 1.3MBps is nowhere near 6MBps. BTW I tried accessing the drive via proftpd but the trasfer rate was around only 30KBps!

**tamoneya** · May 4th, 2008

that is the theoretical maximum. It is rarely if ever acheived. You would probably have to be directly next to the router for that to happen. I don't think that you are doing anything wrong with your transfer so just keep it the way it is. I would be content with those transfer rates.