SetH
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Reet, I thought I would start a thread in here to pick the brains of any CS Geeks.
I am also researching online and the Netgear NAS community forums.
Connected up NAS box the other night and its absolutely as slow as shite, write speeds are only like 400k a minute and if i try to play an MP3 through media player on my laptop it takes about 30 seconds before it starts streaming then it suffers from pauses etc.
As soon as I pointed itunes to a music folder on the NAS box the application just locks up.
NAS box is connected via ethernet to a Netgear ADSL 54mbps 802.11b/g router.
Accessing the NAS Box via a brand new R730 Samsung laptop running windows 7.
I have set the MTU on the NAS box at 1500 and 1430 on my laptop which speeded things up marginally and prevented write errors.
Any ideas for further troubleshooting? I will continue to sift through the Netgear forums but would welcome any suggestions?
Im pretty sure the wireless adapter in my laptop is wireless N so contemplating buying a wireless N router which would give me 100meg wireless instead of 54? but surley it should not be this piss slow using the G protocol?
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PaulW
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Try it via an actual patch cable to rule out the wireless card.
How new is the NAS box?
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pow
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Rule out dodgy wireless first
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SetH
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quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
Try it via an actual patch cable to rule out the wireless card.
How new is the NAS box?
The NAS box is brand new : http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143121
So connect my laptop to router via an ethernet cable an see what the access/write speeds are like then?
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SetH
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
Rule out dodgy wireless first
Any suggestions for how to approach this? ie software to conduct tests etc? I have never really pulled large amounts of data over this wireless network before to be honest.
Netgear router has latest Firmware as well.
Software updates for NAS etc applied too.
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pow
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Yeah, disable the wireless and plug the laptop into the router.
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SetH
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Ok cheers for input but thats a bit of a no shit sherlock troubleshooting task really. (on both our accounts)
I expect via ethernet its going to be quick and that will rule out any issues with the NAS. Hence my wireless network is shite, but question will be why is it shite?
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Sam
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Have you tried to ping the NAS box and the router from your laptop - what ms response rate do you get?
Should be fine over plain old G for what you are doing!
Edit: try what this guy suggests: http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=226
[Edited on 04-11-2010 by Sam]
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Sam
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PS I recently bought a Netgear DGN1000 (wireless N) and I think it's probably the best damn router I've ever had (and I wasn't a fan of Netgear routers in the past due to having some crap ones previously).
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Dom
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I had a Netgear WGT router and it too use to suffer with shite transfer speeds (not as bad as yours, 900kb/s ish) between wireless and the routers Nics, never did find a solution or reason to the bottleneck. But replaced it with a Linksys and i now get a solid 2-4MB/s between my laptop and my wired devices.
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SetH
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Cheers Sam, Might go for a wireless N router anyway, perhaps time to upgrade.
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Dom
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Might be worth patching straight to the NAS box and see what the max throughput is though, you should see 10-20MB/s+ on a Gb link, as it'll show if the NAS box is goosed. Likewise you could do the same and patch it through the router, will tell you if there is issues with the routers switch.
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SetH
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Ok am connected to the router from my laptop via an ethernet cable.
I can now copy data from the NAS at around 9mbs
However if I try and write data to the NAS its only around 100kps
WTF is going on 
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Bart
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reset all your MTU settings back to default.
Also, does the NAS have the latest firmware installed?
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by SetH
Ok am connected to the router from my laptop via an ethernet cable.
I can now copy data from the NAS at around 9mbs
However if I try and write data to the NAS its only around 100kps
WTF is going on
What about connecting straight to the NAS box via ethernet? Seems a little odd that writing is an issue
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SetH
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Wont i need a crossover cable for that?
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SetH
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
reset all your MTU settings back to default.
Also, does the NAS have the latest firmware installed?
MTU for LAN Connection was never changed it is still 1500 the same as the NAS.
Wirless connection is set to 1430.
NAS is running the latest firmware.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by SetH
Wont i need a crossover cable for that?
Shouldn't, but all that'll happen is it won't connect
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SetH
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
Have you tried to ping the NAS box and the router from your laptop - what ms response rate do you get?
Should be fine over plain old G for what you are doing!
Edit: try what this guy suggests: http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=226
[Edited on 04-11-2010 by Sam]
Sam have pinged both router and NAS over wireless and no packet loss and response times are 1-2ms
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SetH
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Hmmm with MTU set to 1492 on NAS and wireless connection I am seeing about a meg in both directions via wireless.
[Edited on 04-11-2010 by SetH]
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SetH
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Its not stable though, when copying a 90meg folder accross it hung half way through and pretty much crashed my desktop.
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SetH
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FUCK THIS SHIT
Just went on ebuyer and found a nice Netgear Wireless N router that had been reduced due to damaged/open box. Next day delivery as well 
better fucking sort this nigga shit out FFS
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Sam
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Which one did you get?
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SetH
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Just put MTU back to 1500 for both devices getting transfer rates of about 60kps LMFAO
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Sam
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You followed the instructions in that link I posted up?
If so, your router is probably fucked
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