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IseWise
Sep 28, 2014Aspirant
ReadyNAS Ultra 4 is slowing down my entire network LAN & WAN
Ive owned a ReadyNAS Ultra 4+ for several years now, with little to no problems, however I'm now having a very strange issue. Every time my NAS is connected to the network, the entire network begi...
StephenB
Sep 30, 2014Guru - Experienced User
BTW, manually setting your gateway IP address to 0.0.0.0 in the NAS might also improve performance - the network being slow indicates that the NAS is attempting to communicate outbound, and it might be succeeding to some degree.
As mentioned the issue here is not your network speed. Your network is slow because the NAS is almost certainly compromised, and it is generating a flood of network traffic. The big issue is that you don't know what it is sending.
As mentioned the issue here is not your network speed. Your network is slow because the NAS is almost certainly compromised, and it is generating a flood of network traffic. The big issue is that you don't know what it is sending.
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