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Requests time out when a device is downloading or uploading
Hi, Not sure if this is the right place for this please tell me if I am wrong. Whenever I am uploading big files or downloading while a device is connected to ethernet any requests on other devices ...
harriska wrote:
I am uploading big files or downloading while a device is connected to ethernet any requests on other devices connected fail.
It would be useful to know what size files are being transferred and specifics of the internet connection.
What upload and download speeds does the ISP guarantee?
Does this match the results from a common Speed Test?
My Spectrum connection, for example, provides 350+ megabits/sec download but only 11 megabits/sec upload. This is common for cable based connections. Most customers require vastly greater download speed than upload speed.
Backing up gigabytes of NAS files to the cloud would totally saturate my puny internet connection. Put another way, it might take under a minute for me to download a 1G file (at 8 bits per byte plus parity bits this comes to maybe 9-10 gigabits), but could take 30 minutes to upload during which time everything else is going to be essentially "frozen". and that's just one file, not a whole NAS!
edit: left a bit of your message in accidentally
The file sizes are 60 megabyte chunks of around 900 gigabytes.
My connection is estimated on the ISP website at 900mbps and 110mbps up, I usually get less download but about the stated upload when I do a speedtest on speedtest.net. The guarantee is 700 megabits down and 10 mbps up.
I get saturating your internet with 11mbps but the upload speed on the nas states 4MB/s upload which is nowhere near the 12MB/s I should be getting and yet no requests get through from any other device.
Thanks for the information. Would it be possible to check the NAS specification? Is it 4 mega bytes or 4 mega bits? (Internet speeds are measured in bits.)
Interesting that ordinary speed tests report upload speeds of 110mb/sec but the guarantee is only 10mb/sec. I don't know anything about BT practices. For example, could they react to a customer "flooding" the upload capacity by throttling the upload speed? If that were the case and the NAS is outputting 4 mega bytes/sec (over 30 mega bits/sec), then.....
Internet search for "NAS upload speed slow" turn up many discussions.
- It was megabytes per second, I didn't realise that was a thing, it does seem to happen on speedtests though but will give the isp router a try tonight to see if that reacts the same way.