No speed improvement with A6200

You're aware it requires a USB 3 port? What transfer rate do you get with a wired connection when transferring?

searay wrote:
You're aware it requires a USB 3 port? What transfer rate do you get with a wired connection when transferring?

A600 is for a 2.0 USB port the A6300 is for a 3.0 port.

searay wrote:
You're aware it requires a USB 3 port? What transfer rate do you get with a wired connection when transferring?

I have a high-speed USB port - the one with the slightly different plug. Is that USB3? Still judging by the next post, this isn't the issue. I will take a look at the wired speed - can't at the moment but will report back.

Thanks

Taken from product overview sheet, "Data throughput may also be limited by the product’s interface, e.g. to less than 480 Mbps for a USB 2.0 interface" 300 is less than 480? USB3 ports are Blue, what color is yours?

The cause of the dismal transfer rate of 4mb between PC & NAS could be something entirely different other than a WIFI problem.

Need to look at ALL Hardware specs like HARD DRIVES and motherboards on both devices. You can bet the wireless transfer speed will never be hire than wired. Unless wired is outdated or broken.

Your initial post said you were looking for an improvement in transfer speed but you never said what you had to begin with.

searay wrote:
Taken from product overview sheet, "Data throughput may also be limited by the product’s interface, e.g. to less than 480 Mbps for a USB 2.0 interface" 300 is less than 480? USB3 ports are Blue, what color is yours? Your initial post said you were looking for an improvement in transfer speed but you never said what you had to begin with.

I don't see any colour on the USB port - only that it connects by a slightly different plug. the standard USB also fits.

The PC reports a connection of 280ish mb but the throughput is around 4m and this was what I started with. Given that I could be mixing bits and bytes, this would still only mean a throughput of around 34k.

I have a QNAP nas that is fully up to date and connected with Ethernet to the router so don't think there are any weaknesses there. I have still to try the direct connection to the PC so maybe there are issues with the wireless setup.

Cheers

If the male portion of the port is black, my guess it's not USB3. I'm saying that based on what I've seen, not 100% certain but everyone I've seen to date is blue. That said your PC is more than likely not a high end or equipped with a newer motherboard with the latest Hard Drive interface SATA III or 6 which is required to see high throughputs. Throughput and connection rates are two different things and in no way should you equate a fast connection rate to having higher throughput. I connect all day at 866.7 but throughput from NAS server to wireless PC is usually about 50Mbps and on newest desktop it's about 100 from nas and about peaks over 300 from internal drive to internal drive.

Thanks for the insight. The pc is fairly high spec, i7 and 9gb ram but it is a three year old Dell so I guess it could be due for an upgrade. Maybe the excuse I've been looking for. :D

Not saying it's either one, Just saying you cannot rule them out until you do some research and run some test. Is it slow due to a NAS network card setting or a NAS drive failing or is it the dell which seems unlikely seeing that it is newer with a i7. Take a large video file and copy from laptop to nas then copy back to laptop compare both times while using a wired connection see if there is a huge difference between write speeds it may point you in the write direction. Being that you expected better numbers with new wireless card and didn't get them then I would question your NAS. When I am looking to benchmark my nas I always reboot it first. Have you run a speed test using a site favored by your ISP. Most have a site they recommend, does it match what you're paying for? My A6100 has a through put around 13mbps if I remember correctly and it's a USB 2 device connecting at 290Mbps Good Luck!

Thanks,

I'll perform more tests over the next few days. My wife has a spanking new HP so I'll hook that up and compare as well as look at the hard-wired performance.

Cheers

I'll bet pdes's port on this laptop (I assume) is a combination E-SATA / USB2.0 port, I have one of these on my Toshiba laptop. I looks like an E-SATA port but it also has the socket for USB connection.

I have an A6200 Wifi Adaptor and an R6300v2 router, not the D6300 cable modem/wifi router pdes has. The D6300 is an AC1600 device (300/1300). Some reviews on the net say the 2.4Ghz performance on this (the D6300) router is fairly poor, but pdes problem is with the 5Ghz.

I can get an AC 866.7Mbps link rate to my router but my file transfer speeds according to Windows 7 are 20MBps to 24MBps (or 160Mbps to 200Mbps), far from the rate of USB2.0 speeds of 480Mb (or 60MB). Windows is reporting (via task manager) network utilization of about 25 to 26 percent. This file is a 38GB M2TS file coming from a Synology DS1812+ NAS. I can transfer files to and from the NAS using gigabit LAN at 100MBps to 120MBps.

Hooking the WiFi adaptor into my desktop computer via USB2.0 or USB3.0 makes no difference, the speeds are the same.

The A6200 adapter must have some hardware bottleneck (or my R6300v2 router must have some setting wrong) for it to only reach less than half of USB2.0 transfer speeds.

The A6200 adapter is capable of only 867Mbps on the 5Ghz AC side whereas these routers (both the R6300v2 and the D6300) are capable of 1300Gbps.

searay warned me before I bought the A6200 not to expect miracles and I didn't. I did get a slight transfer rate improvement over my laptops built in wireless, but not the NetGear advertised improvement. If you have a fairly new higher end laptop you may not see any improvement in transfer speeds using an external USB WiFi adapter verses the built in one.

Long story short, you should be getting a lot better than you are, but don't expect the final result to be a huge difference from your laptop's built in wireless.

Good Luck

Question???
For the veterans here, is the D6300 about the same as the R6300v1, i.e. does it have the same issues???