OT - network speed problem

[Shlomo Solomon]

I forgot to mention that the connection to the NAS disk is via SAMBA.

On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:43:16 +0200
Shlomo Solomon <shlomo at the-solomons.net> wrote:

> This is OT, but I'm out of my depth here so I hope someone can help,
> or at least explain my problem.
> 
> I have a D-Link DSL-2760U router provided by Bezeq. It has 2 USB ports
> so I decided to setup a sort of home-made NAS to provide disk space
> for my home network.
> 
> I connected a WD USB disk (1 TB) and tried copying files to and from
> the disk. I didn't expect lightning speed, but was surprised by how
> slow everything is. 
> 
> Here are some numbers:
> 
> I tested the disk connected to a USB port on my computer and was able
> to read or write a 1 GB file in about 40 seconds.
> 
> After connecting the disk to the router, the speeds are:
> 
> reading 1 GB - 9 minutes
> writing 1 GB - 18 minutes 
> 
> I can understand some loss of speed, but this doesn't seem logical.
> 
> I should probably mention that the disk is formated NTFS because the
> router only supports NTFS and FAT32. The test were all done on my
> Mandriva 2011.0 system.
> 
> What am I missing and/or doing wrong?
> 



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