NAS setup

Well, if you are going to hook your computer up with a wire, a 1gbit switch will increase your computers you hook up to it to 1gbit speeds instead of your router which probably only supports 100mbit, but your computers and the NAS need to support 1gbit too.

if you link us to your computer/network card, router model and nas specs we’ll tell you where the bottleneck is

Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/network/R199143/en/sp1397hm.htm

Belkin N Series router (best I could find): http://gdgt.com/belkin/f5d8636-4/specs/

D-link DNS-320 NAS - http://www.dlink.co.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Product_C&childpagename=DLinkEurope-GB%2FDLProductCarouselMultiple&cid=1197388178398&p=1197318962342&packedargs=locale%3D1195806691854&pagename=DLinkEurope-GB%2FDLWrapper

There’s going to be two bottlenecks though, one that restricts my laptop and my laptop only down to 2.5mb/s, and the bottleneck that limits everyone else to just 8mb/s.

Edit: just ordered a usb wireless adapter with 300mbps capability.

Keeping in mind your router is only 100mbit, realistically you’re not going to get much more than 10MB/s max, so it won’t really matter what network card you have on your end.

Which is why I said

The one I was referring to was the top of the range TP-link router (up to 300mbps): http://amzn.to/K9HLTE

Still waiting for the adapter to arrive though, will be here tomorrow so I can see how satisfied I am with that.

your wireless card is only a g, so the maximum speed you will get out of it is 54 megabits a second, or 6.75 megabytes a second

realistically you’ll only get about 40-50mbits a second over wired, and 30-ish give or take over wireless, (5-6.25mbyte/s and 3.75mbyte/s respectively), and assuming you’re using a laptop, distance to the router, poor route to router, it being a laptop etc will all negatively affect the maximum speed you will get, if you want the best speed use a wired connection

but yeah, 2mbyte/s give or take seems normal for a wireless connection using a g card, not much you can do other than use a wired connection or get a better wireless adapter

PS, 2mbyte/s is fine unless you plan to do a lot of file transfers, if you’re using it to stream movies etc it should be more than enough

[quote=“Niall, post:26, topic:440167”]your wireless card is only a g, so the maximum speed you will get out of it is 54 megabits a second, or 6.75 megabytes a second

realistically you’ll only get about 40-50mbits a second over wired, and 30-ish give or take over wireless, (5-6.25mbyte/s and 3.75mbyte/s respectively), and assuming you’re using a laptop, distance to the router, poor route to router, it being a laptop etc will all negatively affect the maximum speed you will get, if you want the best speed use a wired connection

but yeah, 2mbyte/s give or take seems normal for a wireless connection using a g card, not much you can do other than use a wired connection or get a better wireless adapter

PS, 2mbyte/s is fine unless you plan to do a lot of file transfers, if you’re using it to stream movies etc it should be more than enough[/quote]
Yep :slight_smile: I realise that now, I’ve got a N+ adapter arriving tomorrow which can reach up to 300mbps, though I’m then restricted by my 150mbps router.

True, 2mB/s is still decent, but I’ve got an initial 1.5tb of data to copy over and store, and I mean that could take over a day at the current speed. I ask a lot from such a cheap NAS but I would like it so it’s not noticeably slower than local storage.

Would anyone know about indexing a mapped drive by any chance? Won’t let me use the drive as a windows 7 library location without it being indexed.

btw the nas has a gigabit/s lan port, if you want the absolute best speed get a gigabit/s express card for your laptop(assuming it can use express cards) and hook it up directly with a cable

a gigabit/s will give approx 125mbyte/s, my 5400rpm green 2tb drives give about 110mbyte/s performance, so 125mbyte/s will be close to what a mechanical consumer hard-drive will top out at

[quote=“SilentCJ, post:25, topic:440167”][quote author=eXemplar link=topic=542848.msg3986625#msg3986625 date=1335975162]
Keeping in mind your router is only 100mbit, realistically you’re not going to get much more than 10MB/s max, so it won’t really matter what network card you have on your end.
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Which is why I said

The one I was referring to was the top of the range TP-link router (up to 300mbps): http://amzn.to/K9HLTE

Still waiting for the adapter to arrive though, will be here tomorrow so I can see how satisfied I am with that.[/quote]

That router shouldn’t get you any better speeds to your NAS, perhaps only wireless to wireless, because, if you notice, it still only supports 100mbit ethernet connections, so if your NAS is hooked up that way, that’s the fastest it could ever go.

You would want one that supports 1gbit ethernet connections (1000Base-T), and wireless-N, then you would need a wireless-N card for your computers that you want to be faster, and even then, you might not see a huge improvement.

Oh I see, I didn’t notice that no…

So something like this would be ideal: http://amzn.to/IWekAm
With this expresscard: http://amzn.to/IH5C9U

I’d be satisfied with 8mb/s though :slight_smile: Seems like a whole lot of extra money just for a slightly faster speed, particularly when I’m not sure that the NAS will even transfer at that rate (I looked at benchmarks, with an ‘ideal’ setup I think they managed about 30mb/s write).

That would give you the best speed, but if you just want a wired 1gbit network, a much cheaper way to get that would be a 1gbit switch (about $14). Of course, that wouldn’t increase your wireless speed at all.

Network adapter arrived today, giving it a try now and I’m getting around 6mB/s write by writing a 700mB avi file… not great but I’m happy. Maybe at a later date I’ll try improve it, but I’m pretty skint as I just ordered an SSD as well :o

Thanks everyone :slight_smile: