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Slow / sporadic interface with iMac
Folks, I have a 1 year old iMac 24" with OS 10.11.5 operating system, hardwired to Netgear unmanged 16 port switch. I'm running a 100Mb backbone on this particular LAN branch back to switch (2 pair...
Yup. As I explained above, that's how it is connected already. Remember, the jist of my issue is that iMac connectivity with the RN316 is miserable after it wakes after going to sleep. To have a usable connection MOST OF THE TIME, I have to reboot the iMac. After reboot, the connection is tolerable.
Hello rclementtx,
Can you try connecting the wireless capable machine wired to the switch where the NAS is and disable its wireless functionality then see the same performance?
Regards,
Jenn,
That's hard to do. MacBook Air is pretty much a wireless machine. I don't have adapters for LAN connection - and if I did, the connection would be at USB speed.
There are a couple of posts on other forums on OSX systems having very slow access when they wake up. Might be worth googling.
My take on the posts is that the OSX system tries to access the share before its network connection is back up - and then blocks i/o until it times out. But I don't use macs...
I think StephenB "has it". My complaint appears to be a problem that is Mac related and seems to stem from slow remounting of NAS drives after a Mac goes to sleep. There are lots of posts out there on this subject and they don't appear to be ReadyNAS or OS6.5 related specific. While I don't understand why reconnects are faster on my MacBook Air than on my iMac, I see multiple posts off this community site that talk about ways to automatically remount shares when a Mac wakes from sleep. They all seem to involve tweaking the Mac "Auto_Master" file to automatically load shares to a new folder (or directory) that is created strictly for holding mounted shares. I'm going to crawl on this one first trying a manual mount each time I wake up the iMac (via <cmd><k> "connect to server" via Finder). If that proves to be a predictable solution, I'll then follow one of the routines that automount NAS shares and report back on this thread later.
I'm surprised that with all the Mac users out there, that this isn't an often discussed issue on this Community.
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