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Ukeyoner
Jun 10, 2017Aspirant
1GbE speeds over 10GbE connections? MacOS
I was wondering if anyone is having this same expereince. I have a new 626x, all drives filled, x-raid, connected to a Netgear XS708E 10GbE router, and I'm getting very slow speeds over 10GbE. Not ev...
- Jun 12, 2017
mdgm wrote:
I was thinking e.g. a 5400RPM hard disk in an iMac could be a bottleneck.
I agree that could easily be it. iPerf would measure just the network, so the disks in the NAS and the iMAC wouldn't factor in - so it would help isolate the cause.
Can you copy from the thunderbolt RAID array to the NAS? That's another way to take the imac disk out of the equation.
mdgm wrote:
With Jumbo Frames finding the right MTU for your environment can take a bit of work. I'm not sure if/how well Jumbo Frames work with 10G.
Though they should work just fine, I see no need for them with 10G. So I would just turn them off, and use the normal 1500 MTU.
Also, if iPv6 is enabled in the NAS, try disabling it.
mdgm-ntgr
Jun 11, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
Please send in your logs (see the Sending Logs link in my sig). Is your Mac reporting a 10Gig connection to your switch or 1Gig?
Are you using CAT6A cables? If not you could try using those.
- UkeyonerJun 11, 2017Aspirant
I emailed the logs.
I'm using Cat 7 calbles actually.
In my mac network utility it states a 10 Gbit/s link speed.
On my router all the lights are greenm which on the XS708E indecates 10GbE supposedly.
Thank you for your time.
-Mike Czerniuk
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