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#1 2011-08-21 20:23:49

ozziegt
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Registered: 2008-07-10
Posts: 18

Transfer speeds?

What kind of transport speeds do you get transferring to / from the DNS-323? Mine is pretty slow...if it's not downloading any torrents, I will get maybe 5 MB/sec through 100mbps ethernet. Compared to what kind of speeds people get nowadays with external drives and such, that is just absurdly slow. Then if I have some torrents going that can drop by 50-70%. I'm thinking about getting rid of the thing based on this alone. I want to update my network to wireless N and get some better transfer speeds but I think the limitation is the 323. What kind of speeds are you all seeing?

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#2 2011-08-24 19:15:57

staeit
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Registered: 2011-07-27
Posts: 17

Re: Transfer speeds?

This depends on a number of factors. Are both your source (computer?) and destination (DNS323) connected via LAN, or just the destination. I ask because you mentioned wireless N. Wireless G has a theoretical limit of 54 Mbps or 6.75 MB/s, so 5 MB/s over wireless G is excellent.

When looking at transfer rates, you have to look at the number of files being transferred and how much data is in each file. For instance, transferring a single file 10 GB in size will result in a significantly higher transfer rate than ten million 1 KB files. On my DNS-320 from gigabit LAN -> gigabit LAN (source -> destination) I get about 24.5 MB/s when transferring large files. I also transferred some pictures which was made up of 25 KB -> 5MB files (several thousand). The transfer rate was about 12 MB/s or slightly under half. When Transmission is maxing out speed (~1.7 MB/s on my internet connection) it uses about 40-50% CPU, and when I'm transferring files over SMB (via gigabit ethernet), the smb daemon uses about 90% CPU. Keep in mind that the DNS320 has twice the RAM and a significantly faster CPU.

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#3 2011-08-24 22:54:49

Biscotte
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Registered: 2007-05-21
Posts: 81

Re: Transfer speeds?

The DNS-320/325 forum is one forum below - this is the DNS-323/321 forum.

This topic has been done to death.  Suggest you perform a search.  ''Transfer Speed'' gives nine pages of results. 

If you dont have the time to read the answers, I can summarise: 
- Many people want lightning speed. 
- You are not going to get it
- You definitely aint gonna get it with wireless

Search is your friend.

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