how to improve speeds of an old ass laptop

[Frankie²]

i have a laptop sitting in the basement with freenas on it with a 500 GB hdd plugged in via usb 2.0
is there a way to speed up network transfers?

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[Badger]

USB 3.0  

Is free as on the hardrive itself or is it like a individual hardware or some sort

[Candy Apple]

i need the speeds of my dogecoin syncing increased because its just sitting there.

anyway,did you see this? http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/32309-42-network-file-transfer-speeds