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mreinfeldt
Nov 07, 2012Aspirant
ReadyNAS X6-TL - changing NIC cards?
Folks, I know I have an ancient device (original Infrant!), but I am interested in upgrading the NIC to at least 100 MB/s (from the 10 MB/s the OOB device came with). I cannot seem to find a compa...
mreinfeldt
Nov 07, 2012Aspirant
Ok, I stand corrected... there is a 100 MB/s NIC in there... in the FrontView -> Network -> Interfaces screen, I'm seeing 100 MB/s full-duplex. I am using regular cat5 cable (no more than 15' worth)... however, today doing a large file transfer, the fastest speed I was seeing was about 5.4 MB/s, which is definitely not as speedy as I would like for backing up VMs, etc. I'll keep investigating to see where the delay can be coming.
Thank you for the guidance.
Matt
Thank you for the guidance.
Matt
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