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ReadyNAS DUO Bit Torrent Poor download with new connection
Hi All,
Please help me before my NAS goes out the window! I have the Readynas DUO v2 which was plugged into the router from my previous service provider (SKY Broadband) and my internet connection speed was 2meg. I have the BIT Torrent client installed and use this for downloading from the internet; I have had no problems with speed in the past and on average I get around 300kb/s on downloads.
Today I have had a new internet service installed with VFAST and this is a wimax service with an antenna that has a CAT5e cable coming from it into a new router (Netgear WNDR4500). My new internet connection speed is 15meg. I have plugged my ReadyNas into this new router and tried different downloads but now I struggle to get a speed above 5kb/s.
I have tried different cables and 2 different routers (WNDR4500 & WGR614). All give the same result of slow download speeds. I have tried downloading torrent files to my PC directly with Utorrent and I have no issues with speed at all. I have tried connecting the ReadyNas to my existing sky router and it works like it did before but once I connect it to my new connection it struggles badly.
Thanks in advance and I appreciate all help.
Please help me before my NAS goes out the window! I have the Readynas DUO v2 which was plugged into the router from my previous service provider (SKY Broadband) and my internet connection speed was 2meg. I have the BIT Torrent client installed and use this for downloading from the internet; I have had no problems with speed in the past and on average I get around 300kb/s on downloads.
Today I have had a new internet service installed with VFAST and this is a wimax service with an antenna that has a CAT5e cable coming from it into a new router (Netgear WNDR4500). My new internet connection speed is 15meg. I have plugged my ReadyNas into this new router and tried different downloads but now I struggle to get a speed above 5kb/s.
I have tried different cables and 2 different routers (WNDR4500 & WGR614). All give the same result of slow download speeds. I have tried downloading torrent files to my PC directly with Utorrent and I have no issues with speed at all. I have tried connecting the ReadyNas to my existing sky router and it works like it did before but once I connect it to my new connection it struggles badly.
Thanks in advance and I appreciate all help.
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- I have a download running which is getting a speed of 2.1kb/s which is basically nothing, I have gone into the genie dashboard and gone to the UPNP page and there is nothing showing in the current portmap table.
- Then it seems that its not forwarding the port, you will have to manually forward it.
- I have tried to manually forward the port and it does not make any difference to the speed. Do I need to turn off UPNP when manually forwarding a port?
- It should not matter if you have manually done it look in the router logs under administration to see if there are incoming connection for the port you are using.
Edit: but you could try disabling upnp in the torrent client and forward it manually see if that makes any differance
don't turn off upnp in the router though. - In the log it states [LAN access from remote] from 178.128.95.24:51295 to 192.168.1.5:6881, Wednesday, Jun 20,2012 23:44:37
192.168.1.5 being the IP of the readynas and 6881 is the port - If you want to see if uPNP is really opening a port, you can use http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/ to check it.
- With wndr4500 router i average between 3mb/s - 6mb/s downloads with uTorrent from windows and transmission on the NAS
so there is no issues with that router. - Port is opening ok.
I have tried using Tranmission and it errors when I try and install it on my NAS. Using utorrent on Windows I do get a download speed of 2mb/s but I really wanted to contine using my readynas with bittorrent. I figured that it worked on my old router so it should work with my new one on a faster connection. - Did you download the correct version of transmission for your NAS it should be the sparc version.
- Have you tried a torrent on your PC? It is possible that your VFAST service is actively interfering with torrents.
OOPS, just saw that you are getting 2 mbs from your PC
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