Limiting speed factor?

[agnej]

Hey all,

I built my first NAS this weekend but I had thought it would be a little quicker.

The spec is as follows...

Athlon xp 1800, 512mb ram, 400gb ide hardrive, running freenas.

Its plugged into my bt voyager adsl modem for wifi.

When I connect through the wifi from my mac book I can only send or receive at the fastest of 3mb/s?

Any ideas as to why this is so slow?

Thanks in advance

 

[scotty]

As slow at that seems, you'll only over get about 25Mbit/s real-world throughput over Wireless-G, so 3MB/s is about right (assuming we're not confusing megabyte with megabit).

You would have to go hard-wired or Wireless-N to see any big performance boost. Even temporarily, try testing the speed over a wired connection and you'll likely see it's a lot faster.

 

[agnej]

Hey,

thanks for the reply....

which leads me to my next question..

Would I see much gain buying a Netgear WNR854T RangeMax NEXT 802.11n Wireless Router?

I dont need lightening fast speeds. I just want it quick enough that I can send across dvd iso's without having to wait an hr. Even 20MB/s would be great.

 

[scotty]

N seems to get about 35Mbit/s, or about 4MB/s in real-world speed. A decent improvement over G, but still relatively slow compared to wired speeds. To get 20MB/s (160Mbit/s), you'll need to step up to Gigabit Ethernet, as even 100Mbit (12.5MB/s) ethernet isn't theoretically capable of those speeds. Those are very reasonable and attainable numbers for GigE, but not wireless G or N.

Have a look at this thread.

Whether or not it's worth it is up to you, but based on your expectations N wont help much.

 

[agnej]

Thanks for the replies.

I'll probably end up buying a wireless n router and running a cable from my server in the attic to my room.

This means that when im burning dvds etc I can use the cable, but when I want to just steam movies/music or move small files I can still do it anywhere in the house.

I also need the new router as my bt voyager modem only has 1 lan slot anyway