Slow network on mac mini

Hi All
I ma running the late 2012 mac mini on 10.8.5. Both the wifi and cat5 connected network is very slow when transfering files compared with other machines here on site. I have been trying to transfer films over to a nas box and it's taking 40 mins to copy a film that the other machines here are doing in 18 mins.
I tried both wireless and hard wired, new cat 5 cable, different ports on the switch so the only conclusion I can come to is that it's the mac mini
Can anyone shed any light on this for me.
Thanks
Glenn

Hi Glenn,
Open Network Utility>Info tab, choose those interfaces & Link Speed, errors & such.
See also if Time Machine or Spotlight is tying up the Mini.
Open Console in Applications>Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
Open Activity Monitor, Show:>All Processes, sort on CPU%, see if anything using too much CPU% when this happens, click on Memory tab, do you have many Pageouts?

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