Linksys WRT 1900AC Slow Transfer Speeds USB HDD

[mountain_man]

Thanks Trip. You're right this is becoming a pain. Problem is, there is another guy in the Linksys forums who ha a proper NAS and still gets the same speeds as I do (actually mine are a little faster).

So back to the same questions I've asked in every forum (and asked Linksys support) that nobody can answer:
- What are the max speeds I should be able to get over wifi?
- What is the bottleneck that is maxing me out at 3MB/s read from the drive, whether on wifi or Cat5 cable?

I just don't want to drop another few hundred bucks for no improvement and by everything I have read in reviews, my current setup should work just fine for me needs.... it just doesn't perform anywhere near as well as indicated (and as reviewed on this site).

 

[sfx2000]

Just wondering if the slow writes might be a drive issue...

One of the downsides of the Linksys firmware is that it assumes the drive is formatted already (e.g. it does not have a "format" command for the disk management - NTFS formatted drives will generally have slower write performance than EXT3/4...

 

[htismaqe]

The read speeds are baffling though.

 

[mountain_man]

Thanks for the idea SFX. I did format the drive before initial use. I believe it's NTSF. I'm more concerned about read speeds than write speeds as I use this drive mainly as storage for Kodi and such. It's just so odd that even on cat5 cable, read speeds are 3MB/s. And if I plug the drive into the USB 3.0 port on my laptop directly, I get 75MB/s in either direction.

I have a ticket with Linksys level 2 support. Hopefully they will be able to help.