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Ripperoo
Aug 23, 2013Aspirant
Struggling With Low Speeds < 15MBps Over Gigabit
Hey Guys I have been having a major PITA regarding transfer speeds ever since I purchased my 'ReadyNas Ultra 4 Plus' in May 2011. Originally, I was only getting approx 5-6 MB/second and came to...
Ripperoo
Aug 23, 2013Aspirant
Well, that's a bit alarming.
StephenB wrote: The ping test shows that your network doesn't carry jumbo frames. In fact, you are not getting the normal ethernet MTU of 1500
Yeah, done over ethernet.
StephenB wrote: You did test this over ethernet correct? WiFi doesn't carry jumbo frames.
I will try that tomorrow.
StephenB wrote: So I suggest turning jumbo frames off for now, and reduce the frame size to 1480, and retest. Packet fragmentation will certainly reduce throughput.
I'm gonna have to strip every thing to the bare essentials I think and keep adding items until I find the one that's causing the problem.Thank for the adviceStephenB, it's been very useful.
StephenB wrote: Then try to figure out what component is interfering with the jumbo frames. If all your devices are connected to the trendnet switch, then it is not router. If you have devices connected to the router,try moving them to the switch (as most consumer routers do NOT support jumbo frames).
Me neither, but it does look worrying.
StephenB wrote: On the disks, I'm not sure what the program fail cnt is about, but the other parameters look fine.
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