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jonalexfilms
Oct 25, 2016Aspirant
Upgraded to 6.6.0 and am now having performance issues
After upgradiing my firmware to 6.6.0 access to my netword raid is almost unusable. We have a pretty stable network with a small user base and have tried different forms of access to the raid via ne...
- Oct 25, 2016
Try disabling IPv6 on the NAS.
StephenB
Oct 25, 2016Guru - Experienced User
Do you have ipv6 disabled on the NAS?
jonalexfilms
Oct 25, 2016Aspirant
Hello StephenB, thanks for your reply.
I went under Network -> Links, clicked on the gear and see that both ipv4 and ipv6 are active. ipv4: using DHCP and ipv6 : Automatically/DHCP
- StephenBOct 25, 2016Guru - Experienced User
Try disabling IPv6 on the NAS.
- jonalexfilmsOct 25, 2016Aspirant
That seems to be it! Thanks
- jonalexfilmsOct 25, 2016Aspirant
oh man, now I did it.
It went back to slow performance, and I thought it might be a good idea to switch from ipV4 to ipV6.... and now I can't access the admin.
I've restarted the NAS and no dice.
- jonalexfilmsOct 25, 2016Aspirant
Boot mode -> OS Reinstal {sigh}
- jonalexfilmsOct 28, 2016Aspirant
Just to wrap this up....
I continued having poor performance even after disabling ipv6.
All of the computers on our network are running MacOS, so I had set the acess to all my shares as AFP, however, I tried adding SMB access to all the shares and voilà... problem fixed.
I even enabled ipv6 again, and things continue to run smoothly.
- FramerVOct 28, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Hi jonalexfilms,
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