Vista Wireless Performance Questionnaire

rdouven wrote:

I must say that although I've had similar thoughts during the debugging of my installation it's not completely fair to point the arrow solely at the readynas. It also has to do with the network setup in Vista and its "intelligent" choices it makes for the user. Where there should be a decent interface in an OS like vista for tuning your network setting it just assumes it knows what's best. If you endure the tuning as described in several links in these posts you will be able to get it to work. I do agree that it should not solely be addressed in these forums and that readynas should put out more effort to get this resolved as many people are experiencing these issues. I hope you will get it fixed on your local side and if not I hope readynas will take these complaints serious. best regards, Robin PS I did get it working finally but I do feel with the people who haven't as I too have spent too much time on this to get it working decently.

How is it unfair to point the arrow solely at ReadyNAS? With the exact same network setup, mtu, everything - my linux server (readynas is running on a linux os too) which is running SAMBA does not have any of the problems that the ReadyNAS does.

You tell me where the problem lies. I too have tried all sorts of MTU values, and still my backups will not complete without timing out. They do complete on my linux server however.

Stop making excuses for Netgear. It is plain as day - with all of the variables remaining the same (MTU, Router, ethernet cables, wireless cards and nics, etc), I can backup, read, and write files at full 100Mbps fast ethernet speeds to a linux server while experiencing no timeouts. I cannot do the same with the ReadyNAS Duo. The only variable that is changed is if I am accessing / backing up to the ReadyNas or my linux server. When I try to read files to the ReadyNAS with all of the aforementioned variables remaining the same, I get around 4k / sec (Dialup!). On my linux server, I can read files around 2.7MB / sec (approx 22Mbps) from a Vista laptop with a 54Mbps wireless connection. If I tweaked the settings on my linux server and laptop, I could hopefully get about 30Mbps or better. I'd be ecstatic with 10Mbps from the ReadyNas! Sure, I can change my MTU and get good speeds from the ReadyNAS, but my backups timeout after about 2 Gigs transferred. What's the point?

The problem lies with the ReadyNAS. I cannot understand how it could lie anywhere else. Why is Netgear shunning this problem onto its users - making them jump through hoops: Disable the sidebar, Adjust throttling. Well guess what, someone might want to use the sidebar. None of these work for me, and from my research on the forums it does not seem to work for the majority of the other users. I've even upgraded to Vista SP1 and then SP2 with no change. I have tried well over 20 different MTU settings between 1400 and 1500.

How about you take responsibility and fix the ReadyNas Netgear? If you don't have engineers that can, then you need to hire some that are smarter or more motivated than the ones you have. There are a lot of unemployed people, I'm sure someone is smarter than what you have working for you now, that will even work for less money.