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Netgear Genie Software
I have a Smoothwall firewall set up as DHCP server in a rack with a fresh FreeNAS box. My network is primarily gigabit with Cat 5e and Cat 6 cabling. The leg with the WNR 2000 is connected to one e...
Hi Tim_E,
This is a very strange occurrence.
1. What version of the Genie do you have installed?
2. Does the issue persists on a machine where Genie has never been installed?
3. Does the issue persist on another machine (mobile devices included) where Genie is also installed?
Regards,
Dexter
Community Team
Have you timed your transfers manually? I suspect the software is reporting the speeds incorrectly.
I transferred about 21 TB of data across the connection, the time difference was very noticible, as many of the transfers were done in 300gb to 1tb sections. I wasn't using synthetic benchmarks.
My version is 2.4.38. Whenever it asks for an update, I let it update. I have a few gigabit machines on my network, but none have the storage to move that much data around on it for thorough testing. I understand why you would ask the second two questions, but I don't regularly move that much data around my network. I monitored the transfers closely, and the effect was 100% repeatable.
For my normal day-to-day conditions it should never be an issue. My only other bigger data machine had Genie installed on it as well, and it's not worth my time to flatten so I can test with a never-Genie'd system. I had Genie installed as a quick way to look at my connected devices without logging into my smoothwall to see them. It ended up on pretty much every laptop I own.
(FVX-538 v2, 2xWNDR 3700, 3xWNR 2000, 3xGS108, 3xGS605, 4xAV500)
