<400Kb/sec transfer over Cat5 :(

shutdown nas, pulled disk 2, rebooted... now <500Kb/sec... i think its probably coincidence though... im wondering if it could be the drives... im going to try putting a 160Gb in and i shall report back... EDIT:- same 'fault' with the 160Gb drives

its something that has started since i put the samsungs in... the 160s, that i aquired the NAS with, would happily transfer at around 1.2Mb/sec (ie FLAT OUT on wifi) after i put the 500s in (and formatted them to x-raid by pressing the reset button on the back of the unit) the transfer speed dropped and now *seems* irreversable, evern with the 160s in place. this is not to say it is the drives that have caused the issue BUT as my testing with the lower capacity units didnt resolve this speed issue i dont think its a drive problem i merely think its coincidental that it happened at the time i installed the 500Gb Samsungs.

im pretty sure its not the router as i can transfer between laptop and desktop at 1Mb/sec over wifi.

im beginning to think it maybe a bug/setting with ReadyNAS but having said that i dont know which setting i would change to remedy it :cry:

i changed Speed/Duplex mode to 100Meg full duplex... suddenly started pulling full speed on my wifi... cat 5 is still struggling... might swap the cables out but im not holding much hope

Tried changing the MTU yet? Put it back to auto-neg for gigabit link, but make the MTU 1480.

i dont have a gigabit link... changing back to auto and selecting MTU 1480 rendered the NAS undiscoverable as a network computer but i could still see it as storage device... changing the MTU back to 1500 has allowed access to NAS... and heres the good bit...

over cat5 it now pulls 9Mb/sec... so shes fixed

THANK YOU ALL for your suggestions and taking the time to help out... knew it would be a funny setting somewhere, it always is ;) anyway im happy with my 9Mb so one day ill look into getting this giga switch thing and no doubt post with something else thats goin on funny with it

what sort of down speeds should i expect from my duo...

Duo>cat5>homehub>2GHz Wireless>laptop

my speeds drop sometimes to <40Kb/sec then other times i will pull a full 2Meg

With either the v1 or the v2 you should be limited by your WiFi speed. If you can test with an ethernet connection to your laptop, that would be a good next step.

BTW, do you have a v1 or a v2? (this is not as easy is it might seem - look here: http://www.rnasguide.com/2012/01/09/how ... -or-nv-v2/)

hi StephenB
i DEFINATELY have a Duo V1.

On my laptop im now running Win 8 Pro x86, Intel Celeron M 1.73GHz, 2Gb RAM, Qualcomm Atheros AR5007EG wireless network adaptor (dont know how much of this is relevant) it doesnt matter if i map the drive or access through Network tab in windows explorer, initial populating of the readyNAS contents its painfully slow, once its there, you can search maybe 2 folders into the directory tree before it reports that its 'not responding' (when as a mapped drive it just kicks you out and says the network source is no longer available.)

i have the ReadyNAS setup to spindown after however minutes of inactivity because it has a 'lovely' harmonic with my corner table when in use and its rather annoying... id be worried about it if it did it over cat 5 with my desktop but the desktop is running Win 7 Ultimate and it never misses a beat... i can say it only seems to be a problem with my laptop too (i have tried a 10yr old Dell with a 3com card and it performs faultlessly on Win XP Pro SP3) cat5 or WiFi it faulters as described above BUT some days its possible to use it for 3 or 4 hours over cat5 or WiFi transfering at full speed all the time. i must say though this is seriously beginning to annoy me im still atempting to sort the dir structure of Ready NAS out and doing with the laptop would be soo much easier if only the connection would behave itself!

Edit:- if i use FTP it works first time EVERY time it pulls max speed on which ever medium i use for transfer. so i think my issue lies with CIFS... maybe... what do you lot think ;)

I would look at the network stats and smart+ information on the duo as the next step.

Though if your desktop is always running at full speed with the duo, it seems more likely to be related to your laptop network connections.