Moving file to a NAS. why so slow?
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I have just set up my new Buffalo link station, however I am trying to move some files from my laptop (wireless) to it. But I am only getting a transfer rate of 1.50MB a second, yet my laptop is telling me the network speed is around 40MB a second. I have the NAS attached to my router via a Ethernet cable.
What am I doing wrong?
What am I doing wrong?
Probably nothing
My Netgear SC101T used to be painfully slow
A customer used to have a small single 500GB SNAP drive and to backup 80GB over the network used to take 6 hours.
Copying to my current Freenas box takes no time at all so it may be a bottleneck at the device end - someone who knows a lot more about NAS technologies will be along shortly to correct me
My Netgear SC101T used to be painfully slow
A customer used to have a small single 500GB SNAP drive and to backup 80GB over the network used to take 6 hours.
Copying to my current Freenas box takes no time at all so it may be a bottleneck at the device end - someone who knows a lot more about NAS technologies will be along shortly to correct me
Actual sustained data throughput on a WiFi connection is typically is around 1/3 of the link speed. So at 40MBit/s your actual throughput is around 13MBit/s which is around 1.3-1.5MB per second depending on how you work it out, so it's about right.
My advice is to connect with Cat5 cable. If your computer is quite new then it'll probably have a Gigabit Ethernet chip as does the Buffalo I think, so potential for over 100MB/second there. (The average hard disk will max out around 50MB/s read though).
My advice is to connect with Cat5 cable. If your computer is quite new then it'll probably have a Gigabit Ethernet chip as does the Buffalo I think, so potential for over 100MB/second there. (The average hard disk will max out around 50MB/s read though).
Roop said:
Actual sustained data throughput on a WiFi connection is typically is around 1/3 of the link speed. So at 40MBit/s your actual throughput is around 13MBit/s which is around 1.3-1.5MB per second depending on how you work it out, so it's about right.
My advice is to connect with Cat5 cable. If your computer is quite new then it'll probably have a Gigabit Ethernet chip as does the Buffalo I think, so potential for over 100MB/second there. (The average hard disk will max out around 50MB/s read though).
ahh thank you... My advice is to connect with Cat5 cable. If your computer is quite new then it'll probably have a Gigabit Ethernet chip as does the Buffalo I think, so potential for over 100MB/second there. (The average hard disk will max out around 50MB/s read though).
as above - perfectly normal for wireless
upgrade to 300Mbps 802.11n, thats 150Mbps at best in ideal conditions, say 90Mbps real world, then thats about 10MegaBytes per second MB/s
an entry level consumer NAS will do 10-15MB/s, then its a case of you pay more, you get more speed
its getting more for your money all the time though as the market grows
get a small gigabit switch, connect router, NAS, desktop PC and when you have to do large backups, take your laptop to it and plug in ...you still cant beat a cable these days
upgrade to 300Mbps 802.11n, thats 150Mbps at best in ideal conditions, say 90Mbps real world, then thats about 10MegaBytes per second MB/s
an entry level consumer NAS will do 10-15MB/s, then its a case of you pay more, you get more speed
its getting more for your money all the time though as the market grows
get a small gigabit switch, connect router, NAS, desktop PC and when you have to do large backups, take your laptop to it and plug in ...you still cant beat a cable these days
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