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easytherm
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Jun 25, 2016
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using a NAS RN102 both as a DDNS ftp server and a local network drive. Is that possible?

Hello everybody   I installed about 2 years ago a RN102 NAS at my home in order to have a couple of my websites (remotely hosted) send a daily backup to my NAS. I managed to enable ftp access with...
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  • easytherm's avatar
    easytherm
    Jul 03, 2016

    Thanks a lot,

     

    I'll definitely will transit over a gigabit ethernet switch.

     

    I'll ask my other questions over another thread



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easytherm
Aspirant
Jul 02, 2016

Hi StephenB and thank you for your response.

 

I upgraded my NAS to raid (using now 2 HDD)

 

when I do a backup from an external USB drive connected to my laptop, using Syncbackpro, the speed seemsto be slightly above 5 Mbps. I'm on wifi.

 

Does this sound correct?

 

 

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jul 02, 2016

What speed are you seeing with speedtest.net?

 

Also, do you mean 5 megabits per second or 5 megabytes per second?

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    easytherm
    Aspirant
    Jul 02, 2016

    Hi,

     

    I'm connected locally to the NAS (which is at my home)

     

    when connecting to my NAS over Wifi, I get about 5 megabytes/s, when a connect with cable ethernet, the speed rises to slightly less than 10 megabytes/sec

     

     

    using speedtest i see an internet download speed of 27 megabytes/s  and upload speed of about 6.5 megabytes/s

     

    I have another question ;-), but let's close this case first. Do you think the above speeds are correct for this device?

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      StephenB
      Guru - Experienced User
      Jul 03, 2016

      speedtest.net measures megabits per second, not megabytes per second.  

       

      The RN204 can deliver ~90 megabytes per second.  

       

      Based on your measurements, I think you are running 802.11n wifi and 100 mbit ethernet.  

       

      You can improve wifi and ethernet speeds by upgrading to an 802.11ac gigabit router.  Though that depends on the wifi card in your PC.

       

      Increasing just the ethernet speed is less expensive - you'd need to get a gigabit switch and connect your devices to the switch (and the switch to the router).

       

       

      • easytherm's avatar
        easytherm
        Aspirant
        Jul 03, 2016

        Thanks a lot,

         

        I'll definitely will transit over a gigabit ethernet switch.

         

        I'll ask my other questions over another thread



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