Hello guys,
Here is my situation,
I have a Sony Vaio laptop that is connected via a Cat6 cable to my Airport Extreme. I have a bunch of hard drives connected to the laptop via USB 3 and I'm sharing all their contents on my network.
The laptop I use to access those shares is the newest version of the Macbook Air; meaning that it supports AC WiFi.
The problem I'm facing is that the transfer rate of the files over the network is a bit slow: around 12mb/sec. When I first changed from Cat5 to Cat6, it gave me around 65mb/sec. However, now it dropped to 12mb, which is the same rate I used to get when I had my Vaio connected via a Cat5 cable. So right now, I think my Cat6 cable is backwardly compatible to Cat 5.
My question is, why the sudden drop in speed? Is my analysis about backward compatibility correct? Will forcing my laptop, or the Airport Extreme to only accept Cat6 connection help?
Thanks in advance,,,
Here is my situation,
I have a Sony Vaio laptop that is connected via a Cat6 cable to my Airport Extreme. I have a bunch of hard drives connected to the laptop via USB 3 and I'm sharing all their contents on my network.
The laptop I use to access those shares is the newest version of the Macbook Air; meaning that it supports AC WiFi.
The problem I'm facing is that the transfer rate of the files over the network is a bit slow: around 12mb/sec. When I first changed from Cat5 to Cat6, it gave me around 65mb/sec. However, now it dropped to 12mb, which is the same rate I used to get when I had my Vaio connected via a Cat5 cable. So right now, I think my Cat6 cable is backwardly compatible to Cat 5.
My question is, why the sudden drop in speed? Is my analysis about backward compatibility correct? Will forcing my laptop, or the Airport Extreme to only accept Cat6 connection help?
Thanks in advance,,,