Solved External hard drive to ethernet switch

[CJ_London]

I was actually reading that it is the cable itself which is the bottleneck. From what you said you have coax cable - fine for TV not so fine for data transfer (at least in the UK).

Suggest buy a cat6 (or better) patch lead long enough for your purposes connect the two devices and see what you get. Note sometimes you need to use what used to be called a crossover cable where one end of a twisted pair is connected the other way round.

Others have suggested elsewhere using a link box, plugged into your mains socket and providing a rj45 outlet you can connect to your device. You would need one for each device although some of these may have multiple outlets. Not a recommendation as I don't use them but something like this

Powerline

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[Minty]

Powerline adapters are a great idea (I have quite a few), but the don't generally provide a high speed connection, unless your wiring is nigh on perfect.

When I had the 300Mbs fibre broad band installed at home, I realised that the old PL adapters I had were limited to100Mbs best possible performance. So, I went and purchased a load of 1Gb PL adapters, to get the benefit of my new shiny decent WAN high speed connection.

The performance did improve, from about 35Mbs to 60-70Mbs depending on where I was in the house. Obviously the house wiring wasn't up to the potential performance.

Lesson learnt, and hardwired cable installed to the office from the router and I have 300Mbs internet where it matters.

 

[Gasman]

I found my PL adapters kept losing the connection, wo have bridged routers around the house.
Enough for my needs.

 

[Gasman]

Finally tried on the PC upstairs that is connected by ethernet.