Originally Posted by Thrush
IE, to send a 700mb AVI file from my PC to an external HDD connected by USB2 takes about 3 mins - would it be faster if sent to another PC via ethernet cable?
Yes it would be faster expecially with gigabit ethernet and the appropiate high speed cabling, however 3 minutes is not a long time to wait, use this a break from the pc and have a cuppa