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Ready NAS 104 Crashes when changing Network setting (creating new bond) ...
I was following this thread describing my issue on RN 104 - any attempt of creating ethernet bond (even latest OS 6.10.3) leads to crash displaying something 'putname+14' on the display. The NAS hangs and only way to recover it is to unplug and replug power.
The original thread:
Latest entry is from "2020-02-09 02:31" ... yet the thread is marked as solved -. but it is NOT solved any attempt on RN 104 to create bonding of eth0/1 ends with crash.
We need a solution. My SMB transfer spped to regular "1 snaphshot", "no bit rot protection" is horrible - on 300Mb WiFi to my NETGEAR WNDR4300v2 router directly connected with brand new Cat6 cables to RN 104 I am getting 10 - 14 MB/s transfer ... not even close to mentioned 70MB/s ... I even dream having the 35MB/s ....
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calaba wrote:
My SMB transfer spped to regular "1 snaphshot", "no bit rot protection" is horrible - on 300Mb WiFi to my NETGEAR WNDR4300v2 router directly connected with brand new Cat6 cables to RN 104 I am getting 10 - 14 MB/s transfer ... not even close to mentioned 70MB/s ... I even dream having the 35MB/s ....
FWIW, bonding won't help. The RN104 can't keep up with a single gigabit connection - so adding a second link won't help.
Are you measuring the speed over a wifi connection, or is the PC also connected with ethernet?
If you are using ethernet, have you checked that the PC and the NAS are running gigabit ethernet?
Did new test,
PC file transfer via:
1) WiFi 300 Mbps -> guessing WiFi is half-duplex -> so 300 / 2 / 8 gives me teoretical speed up to 18,75 MBps - I was hitting around 14MBps so that was pretty close to maximum I guess.
2) Gigabit Ethernet (yes I checked it is detected on router and NAS as 1GB and not 10/100Mbs) -> then I was getting around 30MBps using wired transfer. It is still not the max reported (70MBs) but because of the crash while setting the ethernet bond NAS is now re-syncing several TBs so it will take a couple of days before I can run 2nd test via wired connection.
calaba wrote:
1) WiFi 300 Mbps -> guessing WiFi is half-duplex -> so 300 / 2 / 8 gives me teoretical speed up to 18,75 MBps - I was hitting around 14MBps so that was pretty close to maximum I guess.
It's not half duplex. It's true that only one device (including the router) can send or receive at a time. But if you are only downloading (and no other devices are using the WiFi), you can use the full link in the download direction. Likewise for uploading.
But real-world throughput is always a lot less than the link speed. ~100 megabits is reasonable for a 2.4 ghz wifi connection.
calaba wrote:
2) Gigabit Ethernet (yes I checked it is detected on router and NAS as 1GB and not 10/100Mbs) -> then I was getting around 30MBps using wired transfer. It is still not the max reported (70MBs) but because of the crash while setting the ethernet bond NAS is now re-syncing several TBs so it will take a couple of days before I can run 2nd test via wired connection.
Test it again after the sync is finished. If your volume is very old (especially if you started with 6.1.x firmware), you might consider doing a factory reset and rebuilding the NAS (restoring data from backup). You will see a speed increase if you do that.
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