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ReadyNAS 214 Copy over network performance woes
I am trying to copy files over my network to the ReadyNAS 214. I see other people have had troubles with this too. I have looked at the other help articles and nothing has worked for me. I have...
It's unclear where you are seeing "Bandwith indicates 1 Gbps", but you can't get 1GB speed from a 10/100 switch. Those are one of your bottlenecks. You don't give a model number or description of the power line adapters, but that appears to be another. Many early ones were very slow (which you may not have noticed with only 100KB switches. But even newer ones can be greatly affected by specific wiring. In particular, if the power lines on each end are from different 120V buses at the breaker box.
Sandshark wrote:
It's unclear where you are seeing "Bandwith indicates 1 Gbps", but you can't get 1GB speed from a 10/100 switch. Those are one of your bottlenecks.
Correct. In fact, you will end up with no more than 11-12 MB/sec if you have a 10/100 switch. Gigabit switches are inexpensive, so personally I'd just upgrade the 10/100 switch to a gigabit model.
Sandshark wrote:
You don't give a model number or description of the power line adapters, but that appears to be another. ... But even newer ones can be greatly affected by specific wiring. In particular, if the power lines on each end are from different 120V buses at the breaker box.
Powerline definitely depends on the wiring (and older adapters definitely are slower). I've played with it some, and found some surprisingly large differences between adjacent outlets.
Also, (like wifi), the link speed is much higher than the delivered throughput.
andez2000: I suggest that you begin by moving the GS208 [gigabit] switch upstairs (along with the NAS), and measuring the speed with the PC and NAS connected to the same switch. You can still connect to the Skybox as you are now (and can also move the 10/100 switch downstairs if you need the ports).
That should give you full speed when accessing the NAS from the PC. So even if that won't work for you long term, it would allow us to confirm that the NAS is functioning properly - giving ~100 MB/sec on large file transfers.
Longer term, the best option is to install cat5e or better cable between the skybox and the upstairs, and to replace the 10/100 switch with a gigabit model.
You could also look at upgrading the powerline. What is the model of the current set of adapters?
A modern mesh wifi system (for instance Orbi) might also give you better performance than the powerline. Though more expensive, it might also improve your whole-house wifi speed. Though if your internet speed is less than your current powerline performance, then you could just leave the NAS upstairs.
I tired the wifes new laptop connected to the GS208 downstairs via ethernet cat 5e cable. The transfer rate was around 11mbs. This was with the ReadyNas connected to the same switch.
So no computers upstairs. And (hopefully) not getting routed through the powerline. However, I am not sure what cable is plugged between the GS208 and the router - I cannot see writing on either end. But given the wife got 30mbps on speedtest.net on the laptop, I would assume the cable is ok?
andez2000 wrote:
I tired the wifes new laptop connected to the GS208 downstairs via ethernet cat 5e cable. The transfer rate was around 11mbs. This was with the ReadyNas connected to the same switch.
It should be much faster. Do you mean 11 megabytes/s? (btw, it would be helpful if you use MBs for megabytes and mbs for megabits).
Did you test with NASTester? Also, w/o Readycloud running on the PC?
Did you confirm that both the NAS and the laptop are getting a gigabit connection?
andez2000 wrote:
However, I am not sure what cable is plugged between the GS208 and the router - I cannot see writing on either end.
That shouldn't matter. The switch will forward the traffic directly to the NAS (and vice versa). It shouldn't be running through the router.
Correction - it was 11MB/sec sorry using Windows explorer. Also no Ready Cloud installed. Forget that though.
I also am testing my laptop connected directly to the GS208 port downstairs now.
My Laptop over wifi
I also used the NAS Tester from my laptop over wifi:
NAS performance tester 1.7 http://www.808.dk/?nastester
Running warmup...
Running a 100MB file write on \\attesteddevnas\software once...
Average (W): 4.72 MB/sec
Running a 100MB file read on \\attesteddevnas\software once...
Average (R): 5.41 MB/secMy Laptop over ethernet
Running a 100MB file write on \\attesteddevnas\software once...
Average (W): 110.13 MB/sec
Running a 100MB file read on \\attesteddevnas\software once...
Average (R): 104.71 MB/secSo notably faster running ethernet to the port.
So it definitely worth replacing the 10/100 port upstairs for starters. Then I can see what rates I get over the powerline adapters.
Thanks for your help.
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