Hello,I'm hosting a small site on my readynas Duo. Port 80 is forwarded and the site works fine when loading on my local LAN.But when I load the site on a public computer/internet it loads horribly slow. I had also in mind hosting photo's that are now viewable over the net. But when I try to load an image of 620Kb it loads for a few seconds, then waits for about 30 seconds, and then loads another few kb's. It takes too long.Does anyone have any suggestion what I can do to improve the loading speed of my website? Is there any way to get a sustained download speed, it doesn't matter if it is just 20kb/s but better than it is now.I use radiator 1.4.7, the most uptodate firmware, 256mb default memoryMy upload is about 100kb/s. The readynas is connected to a switch and the switch is connected to the internet modem.I tried to set the MTU to 1492 but that didn't had any effectI used another port instead of 80, but that also didn't had any effectMy "share" can be found here: http://wimjager.dyndns.org. Then click on the folder "test" and the website will load. But the main problem is when trying to download an image. When clicking on "naamloos.jpg" it takes ages to download that 620K file.Thank you in advance, any suggestions are welcome.Wim

Performance wasn't that bad for me. It took about 5 seconds to completely load this page (it arrived in chunks):This image also loaded fairly quick... maybe 3 seconds:Perhaps a few others can let us know what kind of performance they're seeing.

Performance is quite bad here. Both images in DBotts post loaded like I was back on dialup. (56k Modem)Going direct the DYN address gave better performance when browsing images. Still a little slow, but not too painful.Loading the homepage however was not so great, and went back to 56k page loading style. In the UK, at 22.15 approx.

My upload is about 100kb/s. If that metric means your uplink bandwidth is 100Kbyte per second, then that's approximately what I see when accessing the site.FYI: the page in the test subfolder seems to be designed for people with very high resolution monitors - you might want to rethink that. Here's how the site looks on my 1280x800 macbook

Thank you all so much for trying out!Trying to access my share on the university network, it all went very smooth like "dbott67" mentioned. It loaded all smooth, with chuncks but fairly quick.A friend of my also tried to access my share from his internet and also found out that it worked fine.But when I try to access my share via the internet of my neighbours (legally and asked) it loads more like "InTheShires" mentioned. But when I used a web proxy server to connect to my share, the site loaded all quick like it was on the university network. I would like to ask "InTheShires" to try to access my share via a proxy server like "hidemyass" http://hidemyass.com/ . Could you go there, paste the web address of my share (wimjager.dyndns.org) and see if you can load the image file and "test" folder, and see if it loads smoothly? I am really curious if it works now.Does anyone have any clue what can cause this difference in performance? Could it be that local ISP's are blocking to access my share like a prevention rule for people hosting websites on their networks? Seeing that several people can access my share perfectly, I am more thinking of a problem of ISP's like described earlier.Thanks for sharing ideas,Wim

Hi, I have exactly the same problem (site is http://145.94.41.58). The problem came up when I started hosting the images as well. Before that I linked them to a blogspot site and all worked fine. When I access this page locally with Windows 7, there is no problem. By accessing it outside of my network it is really slow. But now what really bothers me: on both my cellphone (HTC HD2 with android) and a Macbook don't have the problem. The problem seems to be browser independent (I tried firefox on both windows and mac, gave the same result). Through a VM under linux I also have the problem. I have a ReadyNas NV+ RND4000.The site is build out of php with the content in xml, but before in html only I had the same problem.The images are 10kb a piece and are 290kb in total.My connection is 100Mbit full duplex.Port forwarding is set through a Dlink DIR-615 for port 80 TCP.I also tried it with AVG and windows firewall off.I really hope someone can tell me what is going wrong or what I can try to improve.Regards, Aad

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dbott67
Guide
May 24, 2011
Performance wasn't that bad for me. It took about 5 seconds to completely load this page (it arrived in chunks):

This image also loaded fairly quick... maybe 3 seconds:

Perhaps a few others can let us know what kind of performance they're seeing.
InTheShires
Tutor
May 24, 2011
Performance is quite bad here. Both images in DBotts post loaded like I was back on dialup. (56k Modem)

Going direct the DYN address gave better performance when browsing images. Still a little slow, but not too painful.

Loading the homepage however was not so great, and went back to 56k page loading style.

In the UK, at 22.15 approx.
sphardy1
Apprentice
May 24, 2011
My upload is about 100kb/s.

If that metric means your uplink bandwidth is 100Kbyte per second, then that's approximately what I see when accessing the site.

FYI: the page in the test subfolder seems to be designed for people with very high resolution monitors - you might want to rethink that. Here's how the site looks on my 1280x800 macbook
betaware
Aspirant
May 25, 2011
Thank you all so much for trying out!

Trying to access my share on the university network, it all went very smooth like "dbott67" mentioned. It loaded all smooth, with chuncks but fairly quick.
A friend of my also tried to access my share from his internet and also found out that it worked fine.

But when I try to access my share via the internet of my neighbours (legally and asked) it loads more like "InTheShires" mentioned. But when I used a web proxy server to connect to my share, the site loaded all quick like it was on the university network. I would like to ask "InTheShires" to try to access my share via a proxy server like "hidemyass" http://hidemyass.com/ . Could you go there, paste the web address of my share (wimjager.dyndns.org) and see if you can load the image file and "test" folder, and see if it loads smoothly? I am really curious if it works now.

Does anyone have any clue what can cause this difference in performance? Could it be that local ISP's are blocking to access my share like a prevention rule for people hosting websites on their networks? Seeing that several people can access my share perfectly, I am more thinking of a problem of ISP's like described earlier.

Thanks for sharing ideas,
Wim
niknil
Aspirant
Jul 27, 2011
Hi,

I have exactly the same problem (site is http://145.94.41.58). The problem came up when I started hosting the images as well. Before that I linked them to a blogspot site and all worked fine. When I access this page locally with Windows 7, there is no problem. By accessing it outside of my network it is really slow. But now what really bothers me: on both my cellphone (HTC HD2 with android) and a Macbook don't have the problem. The problem seems to be browser independent (I tried firefox on both windows and mac, gave the same result). Through a VM under linux I also have the problem.

I have a ReadyNas NV+ RND4000.
The site is build out of php with the content in xml, but before in html only I had the same problem.
The images are 10kb a piece and are 290kb in total.
My connection is 100Mbit full duplex.
Port forwarding is set through a Dlink DIR-615 for port 80 TCP.

I also tried it with AVG and windows firewall off.

I really hope someone can tell me what is going wrong or what I can try to improve.

Regards, Aad
sphardy1
Apprentice
Jul 27, 2011
My connection is 100Mbit full duplex

Is that your Broadband speed?
niknil
Aspirant
Jul 27, 2011
Yes, university network :)
sphardy1
Apprentice
Jul 27, 2011
Sorry - I have no idea as to the root cause, though I've seen similar

I've had significant problems recently with Firefox access (under OSX) to my own NAS hosted site - enough that I have moved away from it to Chrome. The problems seem to have started with FF4 but also seem to be sporadic and I didn't have the patience to try to figure it out.

I don't think the problem is related to the NAS as I don't have trouble with any other form of access - just avoid FF for the moment if you can
niknil
Aspirant
Jul 27, 2011
As I said, the problem seems to be browser independent. I have used chrome, internet explorer and firefox for both internal and external connections. All give the same result. If I put this site on an external host, the problem disappears as well. These fact seem to point to problems with settings of the NAS, maybe in some security handling or protocols, but then how to solve such matters?
sphardy1
Apprentice
Jul 27, 2011
You also said that some setups work just fine, so the conclusion could just as easily be the issue is related to those clients that don't work.

There are no settings to change on the NAS other than access restrictions - web access is on or off. The only way to try to debug (other than trial & error) is to start implementing some 3rd party based network monitoring - wireshark or something like that - to determine the difference between a working and problematic connection