G+_Tony Dunn Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Networking question? I have a netgear n router without internet connection. I have cat 5 connected a laptop to the router, and a wd livehub cat 5 to the router as well. I just want to move files between the two. It is working, but at about 5 mb/s. Why so slow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 What is a wd livehub? I've had absolutely terrible speeds from a number of Western Digital's consumer class storage devices. 5Mb/s would sound about right, 5mb/s is way to slow, assuming 100mbit/s network. Gigabit the drive read/write is probably the limiting factor. Netgear and n doesn't really tell us much about the router, is the wired speed gigabit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tony Dunn Posted March 4, 2015 Author Share Posted March 4, 2015 Sorry, yes 5Mb...probably not gigabit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tony Dunn Posted March 4, 2015 Author Share Posted March 4, 2015 Just going to use it as l Extra storage, but I expected faster speeds wired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Well, the max you're going to see in the real world on a 100 mbit network is ~8.9Mbit/s. Still, any hard drive today (even a 5400 rpm model) should out perform the network. Which leads me to believe we've found another sub-par WD product. Don't get me wrong, WD makes some great gear. Consumer network storage isn't one of the things they do so well in my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tony Dunn Posted March 5, 2015 Author Share Posted March 5, 2015 Gotcha...Just going to offload the videos to a usb 3 drive. So much faster. Thanks guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 You might also try a different sharing protocol. The default for Windows is SMB, but if the drive supports FTP there's a chance that could be quicker. Even so, 5 Mbps is pretty slow. Right now just for testing I started copying a 1 GB video from my phone to my PC. My phone is connected to one router which is hardwired to another router which is hardwired to my PC (CAT-5e cable on 100 Mbps rated connections). My phone says the transfer speed is 850 KB/s ~ 1.5 MB/s = 6.6 Mbps ~ 12 Mbps. If the two devices are both hardwired to the same network, I'd expect to see at least double what you're getting. Just my 2¢. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 And, yeah... USB 3.0 should blow any network speeds out of the water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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