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I would guess it depends on your exact smb configuration, as I recall there were multiple configuration parameters for transfer speed, like

> socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=131072 SO_SNDBUF=131072

I never benchmarked these though.

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I haven't run a Samba instance that has changed those options from their defaults in like twenty years.

  # grep socket /etc/samba/smb.conf
  #

I don't have any performance-tweaking options set... just auth, share definitions and server identity and protocol information. I learned long ago that for SOHO (and probably even medium-size-office) use, the performance-tweaking defaults for well-tested software like this are just fine.

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