Howto speed up wifi transfer between to computer/box in same lan?

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The case has nothing to do with cameras, but may be I can get help here.

I have downloaded a lot of films at home to my satelit box vu+ duo saved in its harddrive. I use Filezilla and transfered them to a extern harddrive which I brought with me to my cottage. There I have the same setup - a satelit box vu+ duo and transfer the already saved films from the extern harddrive to the box.

The extern harddrive is a Passport ultra with usb3.

I have wifi connection between my laptop and my extern harddrive to the vu+ duo box and find that the filezilla transfer at my cottage reach 1,2 MB per second. This is far lower than I expect. If I had a cable (RJ45) it would be 40-50 times higher.

My laptop have SSD drives and I tried to move the films over to a SSD and transfer from it to the vu+ duo box and got suprised when the transfer reach - exact 1,2 MB per second also now.

What can be wrong and I hope for suggestions to speed up the transfers. Today with almost one hour per film it is not acceptable.

In my asus 68u router I have checked the capasity of the wifi dongle in the vux duo Box and can see that the Tx rate (Mips) varies from 20 to 65 and the Rx rate (Mips) is about 6,5. This is greek to me, but someone might know. The laptop has 144,4 in both. But in the wlan status in the vu+duo box the bitrate is 144,4 Mb/s and the signalstrengh 90/100 and link quality 100/100. The problem should not be there.

I can add that no other connections were alive than the laptop and the vu+ duo Box.
 
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I knew, but it is a bit complicated to have the ethernet across the floor. As I tried to tell in my first post, the wifi dongle should not be the problem. I have read a lot (googled) that the win 10 has some limits for wifi lan transfer and that there is a solution, but can't find it.

(I need the laptop for other purposes and can not place it near the box.)
 
You can't run a cable across the floor temporarily until the file transfer is done? Then go back to wifi?
 
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You can have speed or you can have convenience. Choose one.

If you were connecting your laptop with wifi and connecting the VU+ box with wifi then all your data needs to go over the airwaves twice which at best cuts your speed in half. As a rule, use wired networking for anything that doesn't move regularly. ESPECIALLY if that thing requires a lot of bandwidth (like a video device!).
 
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Look into a new USB/WiFi dongle. I have one plugged into my laptop with normal connect speeds of 433 Mbs with Win10 and an Asus RT-AC86U router. Cost of about $20USD.
 
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What kind of files it is should not matter, but you are right NoBr8ks it is .TS etc. I can view them in win 10, but with to small screen (Vlc or Win media player). I have the vu+duo2 at home, but the one in the cottage is the old vu+duo. It still work and I keep until it crashes.

The dongle is a 300N wireless apapter and it might be better with a new one, but as explained below I don't use it very much.

The file transfer problem is not a everyday problem. It is mostly in the start of the "cottage-season" where I bring with me films/movies I have downloaded and not have had spare time to view during the winter.

I like to fix data problems and I could not only drop this problem, but must ask for help. Thanks to everybody.

In my last post l mentioned 3,4 MB/s, but after a while it reached 4,2 for the rest of a large file. That is OK for me.
 
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