<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 1:38\u202fPM William Park via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">For those trying something similar...<br>
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- You will get better throughput, if you connect the 2 laptops directly. <br>
My router is supposed to be "gigabit" switch, but I never get Gbps.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">There are other things in the pipeline that will slow things down no matter what.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">That includes reading the disk, and writing to the other disk.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Try dd if=/dev/zero on source laptop, and of=/dev/null on the destination.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I am guessing it will be faster.<br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Curious how you connected them directly?</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Ethernet cable? In that case, you have to configure IP addresses, and routing <br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">manually.<br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
- If laptops only have WiFi (most "new" laptops), then it helps to use <br>
separate bands to get full-duplex, eg. one using 2.4GHz, and another 5GHz.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"></span><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">My new (to me) laptop is WiFi only.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Got a USB to Ethernet dongle from KW Surplus for $8.99.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Worked well.<br></div></div></div>
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