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Vista Wireless Performance Questionnaire
With the amount of Vista issues on the forum, we are putting out a questionnaire here to get more information on the setups to get get a grasp of what is happening. Based on user feedback over the la...
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Just wanted to report that after hours of tinkering I finally resolved my vista wireless problems. I had the same issue as everyone else: wired performance is great, but the NAS is basically unusable over wireless.
Here is my setup -
O/S: Vista SP2
Wirelss Router: Linksys WRT54G (the linksys router everyone and their mother owns)
Router Firmware: Latest as of 9/7/2009
ReadyNAS Model: Duo
ReadyNAS Firmware: 4.6.1
Solution: Set MTU size to 1460 on ReadyNAS Duo.
Yo-dah suggested changing the MTU to that on another board because it turns off burst mode or something, which is the default on the duo and NV+. That appears to be the problem here as well. Note that I tried MTUs of 1492 everywhere (laptop, duo, router) and it didn't help. I also changed the throttling for multimedia packets (or whatever that setting is) and it did no good. So I returned everything to default and tried the last suggestion I could find -- MTU on the DUO to 1460. It did the trick.
So if you have a WRT54G and the duo is unusable (it was fine if I plugged my laptop into my router) try setting the DUO's MTU to 1460. I wanted to get it posted in this sticky forum item so hopefully people will be able to find it easily and try it!
Good luck!
Just wanted to report that after hours of tinkering I finally resolved my vista wireless problems. I had the same issue as everyone else: wired performance is great, but the NAS is basically unusable over wireless.
Here is my setup -
O/S: Vista SP2
Wirelss Router: Linksys WRT54G (the linksys router everyone and their mother owns)
Router Firmware: Latest as of 9/7/2009
ReadyNAS Model: Duo
ReadyNAS Firmware: 4.6.1
Solution: Set MTU size to 1460 on ReadyNAS Duo.
Yo-dah suggested changing the MTU to that on another board because it turns off burst mode or something, which is the default on the duo and NV+. That appears to be the problem here as well. Note that I tried MTUs of 1492 everywhere (laptop, duo, router) and it didn't help. I also changed the throttling for multimedia packets (or whatever that setting is) and it did no good. So I returned everything to default and tried the last suggestion I could find -- MTU on the DUO to 1460. It did the trick.
So if you have a WRT54G and the duo is unusable (it was fine if I plugged my laptop into my router) try setting the DUO's MTU to 1460. I wanted to get it posted in this sticky forum item so hopefully people will be able to find it easily and try it!
Good luck!
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