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Use a 802.11n 2T2R or 802.11ac with GbE Router to Improve NAS Performance

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Does it worth upgrading your Fast Ethernet to GbE in a wireless router improve performance?

Wireless Performance Comparison

I want to accelerate uploading files to my QNAP Ts-119PII and bought RT-AC1200g+ to replace my RT-AC51u. Here is the test result in QNAP TS-119PII with Different Wireless Device on Mac OSX File Transfer Performance Report:

1. 802.11ac 433Mbps - 約 19MB/s
2. 802.11ac 867Mbps - 約 27MB/s
3. 802.11n 300Mbps @ 5GHz - 約 25MB/s

I use AFP uploading a 3.87GB file to QNAP TS-119PII with Seagate Laptop SSHD 1TB from Mac Mini 2012 Late.

GbE Reference

For your reference, QNAP TS-119PII with Seagate Laptop SSHD and Kingston V+100 SSD File Transfer Performance Report is a test report with a mixed file set transferring between an AIO and QNAP TS-119PII with 1TB Laptop SSHD using GbE. Upload using Samba is about 44MB/s while NFS is 36.8MB/s

Conclusion:

If you have a 802.11n 2T2R wireless router with GbE, you might feel downgrade after upgrading to a 802.11ac 1T1R with GbE.

Just my two cents.
 

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