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frequent network dropoffs
My ReadyNAS NV+ (v1) keeps dropping off the network. I recently switched from share to user security, but this has been going on for much longer. I'll open a file, start to work on it, then the share ...
I doubt this is causing your issue, but might help reliability / stability / throughput on your network. Try doing the following command in a DOS prompt from the machine which is experiencing connectivity issues:
ping /f /l 1472 ip.of.router
ping /f /l 1472 ip.of.nas
If you get the "packet needs to be fragmented but DF set" message, you may want to reduce the size of the MTU on that machine to a level where the above message doesn't occur, and add 28 to the number that worked and use this as the machine's MTU.
A lot of people have posted issues with performance on the Sparc NAS's and Windows 7 in the past. Not sure how you'd change this in OSX, as I've never had/used a Mac, but for those that WERE experiencing poor performance, setting the MTU lower did help, me included when i was using Wireless.
ping /f /l 1472 ip.of.router
ping /f /l 1472 ip.of.nas
If you get the "packet needs to be fragmented but DF set" message, you may want to reduce the size of the MTU on that machine to a level where the above message doesn't occur, and add 28 to the number that worked and use this as the machine's MTU.
A lot of people have posted issues with performance on the Sparc NAS's and Windows 7 in the past. Not sure how you'd change this in OSX, as I've never had/used a Mac, but for those that WERE experiencing poor performance, setting the MTU lower did help, me included when i was using Wireless.
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