Slow speeds transferring files on LAN

branners69

Hey,

am having an issue with slow speeds when I am copying files to a hard drive on my network. With a wireless connection I only get speeds of 3mb at most but slows down to 600k! With a wired connection I get 5mb dropping to 3mb!

The hard drive is connected to a TP Link Archer C9 router. The laptop is running Windows 10 and when I do a speedtest for the internet I get 30mb or so on both wireless and wired.

I have disabled the Large Send Offload in the wired connection (no option in the wireless settings) but it didnt make any difference!

Any ideas of a setting I can change/look at to get speeds up to 15mb+?

Thanks

degsie

File transfer rates are measured in megabytes per second(MB/s). Can you clarify as you are indicting megabits (Mb) not Megabytes?

File transfer is not a great indication of network speeds as it depends on local file caching, file size and disk fragmentation etc.

branners69

degsie wrote: »

File transfer rates are measured in megabytes per second(MB/s). Can you clarify as you are indicting megabits (Mb) not Megabytes?

File transfer is not a great indication of network speeds as it depends on local file caching, file size and disk fragmentation etc.

MB/s, I can understand there being other factors but to have it so slow cant be down to disk frag! There is something slowing up the file transfer and I was wondering if someone had a suggestion of what I can try to rectify it!

degsie

try iperf to diagnose your problem

Jakey Rolling

branners69 wrote:

I have disabled the Large Send Offload in the wired connection (no option in the wireless settings) but it didnt make any difference!

At 5MB/s you're getting at least 40Mbits/sec over your LAN. Slightly more, allowing for packaging of the data (ethernet frame headers). So approx half the bandwidth of a 100Mbs LAN.

May be that one of your connections is only operating half-duplex, possible with a bad cable or older switch or hub.

ED E

Yeah, I think that message didnt sink in when degsie said it. As Jakey explaine you're hitting 40Mbits/sec which is good to very good for conventional wifi.

The other problem you'll see is SMB is terrible for many small files. Like shocking. So if you copy 1 4.7GB disk image you'll see max throughput but try copy 4GB of "My Documents" and you'll see 10% of that.

Finally, routers dont do NTFS well. At all at all.



So the real answer is, if you want a NAS, buy a NAS. Dont buy a router.

Cuddlesworth

Plus, your router is now doing a fileshare via USB2 while trying to do all its other tasks.

branners69

Cheers for all the replies! I will pickup a NAS in the new year!

Any advice on a decent start off NAS? Around the €200-€300 mark?

stimpson

branners69 wrote: »

Cheers for all the replies! I will pickup a NAS in the new year!

Any advice on a decent start off NAS? Around the €200-€300 mark?

Why buy a NAS when you can get a HP microserver for ~€150 after cashback?

https://www.serversplus.com/servers/tower_servers/hp_tower_servers/819185-421

ItHurtsWhenIP

stimpson wrote: »

Why buy a NAS when you can get a HP microserver for ~€150 after cashback?

https://www.serversplus.com/servers/tower_servers/hp_tower_servers/819185-421

There doesn't seem to be any disk or OS in that. While you can get Linux free, you won't get any HDDs free. :rolleyes:

stimpson

ItHurtsWhenIP wrote: »

There doesn't seem to be any disk or OS in that. While you can get Linux free, you won't get any HDDs free. :rolleyes:

OPs request is 200-300. Plenty of cash left for hard drives.

degsie

branners69 wrote: »

Cheers for all the replies! I will pickup a NAS in the new year!

Any advice on a decent start off NAS? Around the €200-€300 mark?

Check out Synology or QNAP NAS's

Johnboy1951

stimpson wrote: »

Why buy a NAS when you can get a HP microserver for ~€150 after cashback?

https://www.serversplus.com/servers/tower_servers/hp_tower_servers/819185-421

Have a look at the software costs for that server ..... and some are needed to get full control.