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Netgear RAXE500 SMB (SAMBA) Readyshare USB3.0 slow/ buggy on Android
Hi, just bought the RAXE500 router to replace the RAX80. I'm very happy with the WiFI performance on it compared to my previous RAX80. The only issue which I and many others I believe are facing ...
Which drive do you have connected to the RAXE500?
I currently use a USB 3.0 SATA dock, and with both an 8TB WD red, or a 2TB SATA SSD, the speeds average for reads and writes to my desktop PC connected via the 2.5GbE port, is 151MB/s (and even in that case, the speed seems to be a software limit and not a hardware one since the CPU usage of the router remains very low during both reads and writes.
Over WiFi, using a laptop with an Intel AX210, speeds will hover around 130-147MB/s.
On android, it heavily depends on the device, and it is not fully related to hardware, instead it is more related to how the device is configured as well as the software used.
The RAXE500 supports and uses SMB 3.1.1 which is currently the latest standard.
For example, on my ZTE Axon 10 Pro smartphone, even though it will connect at a PHY rate of 866.7Mbps and get a real world speed of about 600Mbps, it would read and write from the USB storage on the router at around 6-7MB/s.
On my older ZTE Axon 7 (significantly slower CPU), but rooted and using a different network stack, it can get around 15MB/s, in both cases, the CPU usage is low.
Overall, it has to do with how the OS is configured and the type of network traffic it is optimized for. SMB tends to use a single TCP connection and is heavily dependent on the IOPS of the endpoints for the connection.
I'm using a Buffalo HDD (HD-PZU3) on USB 3.0 port.
Also, I've connected the HDD/SSD enclosure which supports SAT III, where a Toshiba HDD is attached to it.
6-7 MB/sec on Android via WiFi is slow, you said it yourself. Your android can obtain higher speeds.
With that much speed, you can't play High bitrate videos, such as Dolby Atmos 4K or any other 4k videos that require high bandwidth connection.
This wasn't a problem on the older routers such as the Netgear RAX80, and since you clarified the SMB version being 3 , it seems to be clear that this might be the problem for android.
I'm getting around 90 Mb/sec writing to my laptop's internal drive via HDD connected to the router with FTP protocol, but only get 50-60 Mb/sec uploading the same file to the HDD connected to Router's ISB 3.0 port via FTP.
Also, I've connected the HDD/SSD enclosure which supports SAT III, where a Toshiba HDD is attached to it.
6-7 MB/sec on Android via WiFi is slow, you said it yourself. Your android can obtain higher speeds.
With that much speed, you can't play High bitrate videos, such as Dolby Atmos 4K or any other 4k videos that require high bandwidth connection.
This wasn't a problem on the older routers such as the Netgear RAX80, and since you clarified the SMB version being 3 , it seems to be clear that this might be the problem for android.
I'm getting around 90 Mb/sec writing to my laptop's internal drive via HDD connected to the router with FTP protocol, but only get 50-60 Mb/sec uploading the same file to the HDD connected to Router's ISB 3.0 port via FTP.