My TP-LINK Gigabit switch arrived today. I did a fresh install of ESXi 6.0.0 and connected that host to the switch. I connected my main PC to the switch as well. I also connected our network to the switch. My hope was that this alone would increase my transfer speeds. It didn't work. I enabled SSH because using vSphere to upload anything was painfully slow and just ended up giving me an error. I connected to the ESXi host via SSH (using WinSCP) and right now my files are uploading at around 30kb/sec...which is terrible!
Is there a way I can configure my ESXi host to not go over my main network and instead just go through the switch? I think the bottleneck is my network (which I have no power over at my company).