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KennyRobb
May 21, 2020Aspirant
Ready NAS 104 Slow Performance
Hi there, lets start out with the setup.
I have a home network 200MB connection to outside world (via Virgin Media) I have a cable coming out the back of the VM router to my office where is connencted into a Netgear GS308P.
Coming off of that switch I have devices in every port.
1. Link from VM Router
2. Laptop
3. POE TPLink EAP (for wireless in the office)
4. MAC
5. Main Laptop
6. Printer
7. Secondary NAS eth1
8. Primary NAS eth0
Ready Nas 104 running FW 6.10.3 I have setup both network cards with fixed addresses (was going to try and join them but require a switch upgrade) Both adaptors report 1Gig connection in Admin
On the switch all the devices attached report they have 1gig connection (by colour of the lights) and I have checked by looking at what is reported in the system configurations.
When I transfer files from the main Laptop I am getting about 10mbps (going by the windows 10 file transfer window)
I have downloaded and run the NAS tester and is reporting that I am getting about 20mbps
I think I shoul be getting about 100mbps
Any ideas as to what might be causing the boottlenecks.
Thanks in anticipation
Kenny
KennyRobb wrote:
Where to now or do I just take the speed double and move on.
I'd probably take it and move on for now.
If you need the additional speed boost, you probably should consider upgrading the NAS to a faster model and then re-purpose the RN104 as a backup NAS.
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- StephenBGuru - Experienced User
KennyRobb wrote:
Ready Nas 104 running FW 6.10.3 I have setup both network cards with fixed addresses (was going to try and join them but require a switch upgrade) Both adaptors report 1Gig connection in Admin
Start by disconnecting one of these network connections. The RN104 isn't really fast enough to take advantage of link aggregation, and running two interfaces w/o it can complicate the troubleshooting.
KennyRobb wrote:
When I transfer files from the main Laptop I am getting about 10mbps (going by the windows 10 file transfer window)
I have downloaded and run the NAS tester and is reporting that I am getting about 20mbps
I think I shoul be getting about 100mbps
Capitalization does matter here, so I'd like to clarify. mbps -> megabits per second. MBps -> megabytes per second (8x faster). Which are you seeing?
FWIW, you won't get 100 MBps with an RN104. You can get 50-70 MBps, but that's about it.
KennyRobb wrote:
When I transfer files from the main Laptop I am getting about 10mbps (going by the windows 10 file transfer window)
I have downloaded and run the NAS tester and is reporting that I am getting about 20mbps
Is there any chance that the laptop is using wifi for the transfer?
Also, about when was the NAS first set up?
- KennyRobbAspirant
Good Point Stephen B, momentarily forgot about Capitalisation
MB/s
The NAS was originally setup over 3 years ago.
WiFi Is switched off on the laptop. Laptop is a fairly good spec Alienware R17 with SSD
Kenny
- StephenBGuru - Experienced User
FWIW, this is what I get with an RN102 (RAID-1 with 2x1TB Ironwolf drives)"
Running a 400MB file write on \\10.0.0.13\Music 5 times... Iteration 1: 80.33 MB/sec Iteration 2: 79.92 MB/sec Iteration 3: 80.00 MB/sec Iteration 4: 73.06 MB/sec Iteration 5: 79.91 MB/sec ----------------------------- Average (W): 78.65 MB/sec ----------------------------- Running a 400MB file read on \\10.0.0.13\Music 5 times... Iteration 1: 67.04 MB/sec Iteration 2: 69.68 MB/sec Iteration 3: 70.42 MB/sec Iteration 4: 70.14 MB/sec Iteration 5: 70.40 MB/sec ----------------------------- Average (R): 69.54 MB/sec -----------------------------
Test with a single ethernet connected to the NAS, and if you have any internet security software (AVG, Kaspersky, etc) disable it.
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