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haachee
Aug 22, 2012Aspirant
Purchasing ReadyNas Pro 6 Diskless
Hello, I'm an IT consultant for a small law firm. The firm is using about 3TB of storage and increasing. I'm currently thinking of purchasing 2 ReadyNas Pro 6 Diskless units and I have a couple...
haachee
Aug 28, 2012Aspirant
He's running Microsoft Small Business Server 2008, so he's just using the VPN option from the server's operating system which is setup as a PPTP VPN.
I tested my bandwidth from home and I have a 18Mbps down and ~900Kbps up link. I tried copying a 10.3MB file from the server to my computer and then copy it back to the server in a different location. My download transfer was fast as was expected about 2.0MB/s. When I tried copying it back it took about a minute to copy back with a transfer rate of around 120 KB/s. This is what he's complaining about. He wants this to be faster. The best way to really increase his upload speed would be to increase his up bandwidth with his ISP which he could.
Again one of the main reasons why I was thinking of the ReadyNas for his home, was he would be able to work off of this while he was working from home.
I tested my bandwidth from home and I have a 18Mbps down and ~900Kbps up link. I tried copying a 10.3MB file from the server to my computer and then copy it back to the server in a different location. My download transfer was fast as was expected about 2.0MB/s. When I tried copying it back it took about a minute to copy back with a transfer rate of around 120 KB/s. This is what he's complaining about. He wants this to be faster. The best way to really increase his upload speed would be to increase his up bandwidth with his ISP which he could.
Again one of the main reasons why I was thinking of the ReadyNas for his home, was he would be able to work off of this while he was working from home.
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