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zigdapig
Oct 16, 2012Aspirant
DI-624 wireless and gigabit router
The DI-624 seems to perform just fine with the ReadyNas Ultra 2. At first, I had a lot of problems. There were network hiccups in connecting to the nas, especially noticeable when trying to play...
zigdapig
Nov 03, 2012Aspirant
Hi guys,
Yeah, the new version of the switch is green, but I have an older version of this switch (from 2008 or so...).
All cabling is at least cat5e and tested with a cable tester, and since I sometimes can stream music to 2 pc's simultaneaously for up to 10 minutes without experiencing any dropouts, I'm pretty confident the cabling is ok. I also tried different cables, and I'm confident that with the combinations I tried there should have at least been 1 configuration that should have worked.
I also get up to 600 MBit effective speed (from measurement tools) from and to the NAS.
I checked the error log you mentioned, and it shows no errors and no dropped packages (only a coule of dropped RX packages from the time when I unplugged the router and switch while I was streaming music, but none since then).
I will try the direct connection when I find a cross-cable somewhere, I guess this is my final option... It's probably the switch then I guess, but I still find it strange that it sometimes works for 10 minutes straight without any dropouts, and then suddenly again dropouts every minute.
I must say I also had a lot of problems with host name resolving, but I think I've solved this now
But when I ping the readynas, the address is still sometimes resolved to the static IP address of the disconnected port of the readynas for some reason...
I solved this by adding a fixed entry in the Hosts file on both windows clients.
Before I solved this, I really encountered dropouts where Windows would actually say it didn't find the network drive anymore (e.g. during copying files)
I didn't encounter that issue anymore today, so that's already a great improvement...
Anyway, thanks for the tips !
Yeah, the new version of the switch is green, but I have an older version of this switch (from 2008 or so...).
All cabling is at least cat5e and tested with a cable tester, and since I sometimes can stream music to 2 pc's simultaneaously for up to 10 minutes without experiencing any dropouts, I'm pretty confident the cabling is ok. I also tried different cables, and I'm confident that with the combinations I tried there should have at least been 1 configuration that should have worked.
I also get up to 600 MBit effective speed (from measurement tools) from and to the NAS.
I checked the error log you mentioned, and it shows no errors and no dropped packages (only a coule of dropped RX packages from the time when I unplugged the router and switch while I was streaming music, but none since then).
I will try the direct connection when I find a cross-cable somewhere, I guess this is my final option... It's probably the switch then I guess, but I still find it strange that it sometimes works for 10 minutes straight without any dropouts, and then suddenly again dropouts every minute.
I must say I also had a lot of problems with host name resolving, but I think I've solved this now
But when I ping the readynas, the address is still sometimes resolved to the static IP address of the disconnected port of the readynas for some reason...
I solved this by adding a fixed entry in the Hosts file on both windows clients.
Before I solved this, I really encountered dropouts where Windows would actually say it didn't find the network drive anymore (e.g. during copying files)
I didn't encounter that issue anymore today, so that's already a great improvement...
Anyway, thanks for the tips !
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