NAS Only 10MB/s Transfers Over Same Network

[Tom900]

So ive just set up my NAS and im trying to trasfer a 40GB file to it, it seems to be limited at 10MB/s as it tops out at that, anyone know what might be bottle necking it, it says on network properties is 100Mb/s does that make it 10? what do i need to change to get it to max out the HDD speed which is around 100 MB/s, cheers

 

[dark_lord69]

Mb is not MB
Megabits vs Megabytes

Network properties shows the speed in Mb/s (100Mb/s is fairly common)
Files are measured in MB.
There are 8 bits in 1 byte.

So, 100Mb/s is 12.5 MB/s so 10 is near MAX speed.
It would take 3200 seconds at max speed for a 40GB file (not exact but close).
That would be 53 minutes. But since it's running at 10MB/s it would take 4000 seconds or about 1 hr and 7 minutes.

 

[Tom900]

Mb is not MB
Megabits vs Megabytes

Network properties shows the speed in Mb/s (100Mb/s is fairly common)
Files are measured in MB.
There are 8 bits in 1 byte.

So, 100Mb/s is 12.5 MB/s so 10 is near MAX speed.
It would take 3200 seconds at max speed for a 40GB file (not exact but close).
That would be 53 minutes. But since it's running at 10MB/s it would take 4000 seconds or about 1 hr and 7 minutes.

Should this still not be 1000Mb/s because everything is capable of gigabit speeds, the cable is cat 6 the router supports gigabit ports and so does the Nas so that would be 125MB/s wouldn't it? Im trying to figure what part is bottlenecking it

 

[dark_lord69]

OK,
Your network card in the computer needs to be gigabit. Right click on the adapter properties to view connection status.
Speed needs to say 1000 Mbps or 1 Gbps

You said your cables are CAT 6 which works well for gigabit.
You said your NAS and router are capable of gigabit.
It seems that the only thing that may not be up to par could be the computer.

 

[Tom900]

OK,
Your network card in the computer needs to be gigabit. Right click on the adapter properties to view connection status.
Speed needs to say 1000 Mbps or 1 Gbps

You said your cables are CAT 6 which works well for gigabit.
You said your NAS and router are capable of gigabit.
It seems that the only thing that may not be up to par could be the computer.

Ok I don't have a network card but I just checked the motherboard spec and the motherboards port is gigabit, I'm really unsure what it might be :/

 

[dark_lord69]

The port may be gigabit but you should check to see what speed it's actually running at.
Right click on your network adapter and select status (How to do that depends on the version of windows you are running.) to see what speed is actually being used.
There are different settings related to your adapter one of which will auto select the speed and choose the speed you didn't want depending on various issues.

 

[Tom900]

The port may be gigabit but you should check to see what speed it's actually running at.
Right click on your network adapter and select status to see what speed is actually being used.

Yea it's says 100Mb/s I looked around a little and the port on the Nas shows the top led is flashing yellow and bottom solid green, so that means that send is flashing yellow and green is gigabit which means from my pc is the issue but I still don't know what as it shows that

 

[dark_lord69]

Open device manager
Right click on your ethernet adapter and select properties.
Click the advanced tab
Find the "Speed & Duplex" setting, try manually setting it to the gigabit option and see if it connects without issues.
For myslef, that setting will not allow a connection which typically means there is something in the transfer that won't allow the 1gbit speed.
Cable, Cable length, weak signal ... I actually don't know what all of the requirements are for gigabit speeds.

 

[Tom900]

When i try that it sets it but when i apply it my connection goes and says that a cable isnt plugged in, im basically guessing it means it cant just do that speed

 

[Tom900]

So it turns out that the router is not gigabit, i don't know how old it us to not have that but not as old as i expected, going to be upgrading to the Linksys WRT1900ACS Dual Band AC1900 Gigabit which should be a solid investment as i check and it only goes up to 100M Full Duplex on my current netis router, thanks for your help though when i get it i will have to set that to my network adapter option