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tscottemail
Mar 07, 2012Aspirant
Mediocre performance- Why?
I’m frustrated with my upload speed to my NAS. Should I be? I’m able to upload at about 14MB/s. I was expecting 25+MB/s. Was this an unrealistic expectation? I frequently upload large files: 10GB+. A...
StephenB
Mar 07, 2012Guru - Experienced User
Inserting the switch is all you should need to do.
tscottemail wrote: Can I simply add a switch with jumbo support to my E3000 or must the router and the switch both support jumbo? In other words: if both the PC and the NAS are cat6 connected to the switch behind the router, is their communication direct or does the router still play a part in the LAN file transfer?-
Though you are depending on the ReadyNAS (and your PC) to detect connections where jumbo frames won't work and apply the proper MTU (for instance WiFi or internet access). If this detection fails, you will end up with poor performance (perhaps no connection, perhaps highly fragmented packets).
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