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Tom=E1s =D3 h=C9ilidhe wrote:
> Let's say a friend of yours has a load of films on the internal hard =

> disk on his laptop. You want to copy some of them to your own laptop, =

> and the total is about 50 gigabytes.
> =

> How do you do it?
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> Let's say that your own laptop is running Microsoft Windows, but the =

> donor laptop can be running anything (e.g. Linux / Mac OS / Solaris / =

> XBox / Playstation 3)
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> Well at the moment here's what I do:
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> * On my own laptop, give my NIC a static IP
> * Enable file sharing on my own laptop and share the folder into which I =

> want to copy the files
> * On the donor laptop, give the NIC a static IP in the same subnet as my =

> own laptop
> * Go to a file manager and type \\10.10.10.1\  (=3D address of my own lap=
top)
> * Copy the files across
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> Now this method works great, but I'm just wondering if I'm missing out =

> on a faster way. Is Samba file sharing fast enough, or should I be using =

> something like FTP?
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> Any other ideas, throw them out there.
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Windows SAMBA shares are awkward for transferring large files:
1) The transfer cannot be resumed
2) On every windows system I've used, transferring 1 file only uses
roughly 60% of the NIC's maximum speed. Oddly, transferring two files in
parallel does utilize ~95%.
3) The CPU is used a lot for these transfers, especially at high speed.
This may or may not be a problem.

I've gone down the route of setting up an FTP server (FileZilla) on each
of my computers which is far more efficient.

- From my experience on 100-base-T, using this takes very little CPU and
can get very close to the NIC's maximum speed.
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Brendan Gillatt | GPG Key: 0xBF6A0D94
brendan {a} brendangillatt (dot) co (dot) uk
http://www.brendangillatt.co.uk

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