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Hi again

Any idea on this one

Im getting slow write speed to the server when copying a file from windows to ubuntu server ...... I get 20MB/sec max in windows sometimes but generally around 10MB/sec - 2 x 2tb hitachi coolspins not raided or anything

Checked bios options - just tried setting to IDE - dont think its made any difference - write cache is disabled as well - are there any other options in the bios I should look at ????

Im using an Intel gigabit port which was added to the microserver (as afaik the internal one doesnt work with WOL under ubuntu)

I have everything gigabit (cat 6) - all hard wired apart from laptop im transferring from but that does have a 6300 ultimate wireless N 3 stream card in the laptop connecting to a asus rt-n66u (very near by)
(laptop only has 100mb ethernet)

Any ideas on where I can go from here???

Not sure if its the default Samba setting or just microserver issues

Thanks for any advice
 
tododo said:
Hi again

Any idea on this one

Im getting slow write speed to the server when copying a file from windows to ubuntu server ...... I get 20MB/sec max in windows sometimes but generally around 10MB/sec - 2 x 2tb hitachi coolspins not raided or anything

Checked bios options - just tried setting to IDE - dont think its made any difference - write cache is disabled as well - are there any other options in the bios I should look at ????

Im using an Intel gigabit port which was added to the microserver (as afaik the internal one doesnt work with WOL under ubuntu)

I have everything gigabit (cat 6) - all hard wired apart from laptop im transferring from but that does have a 6300 ultimate wireless N 3 stream card in the laptop connecting to a asus rt-n66u (very near by)
(laptop only has 100mb ethernet)

Any ideas on where I can go from here???

Not sure if its the default Samba setting or just microserver issues

Thanks for any advice
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Is this any good?? - This was done on the wireless laptop - transferring a test file to the server - no idea if any good or not

Thanks again

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jamesfreddie said:
Is this to the laptop over 100mbs?
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Laptop is the only thing thats not wired at the moment (so its over wireless - 5ghz)

Laptop does have ethernet but the laptop is 100mb only (hence not using the inbuilt card)

However I do have a Belkin Gigabit Express card which Ive also added to the laptop to make GigE - but that will only run at 100mb for some reason - when I set to GigE I get network cable unplugged

Everything else is GigE - Cat 6 and Switches are all GigE too

When I try the Express card on 100mb I get the following

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Really I need a proper GigE laptop to test I suppose
 
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tododo said:
Laptop is the only thing thats not wired at the moment (so its over wireless - 5ghz)

Laptop does have ethernet but the laptop is 100mb only (hence not using the inbuilt card)

However I do have a Belkin Gigabit Express card which Ive also added to the laptop to make GigE - but that will only run at 100mb for some reason - when I set to GigE I get network cable unplugged

Everything else is GigE - Cat 6 and Switches are all GigE too

When I try the Express card on 100mb I get the following

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Really I need a proper GigE laptop to test I suppose
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5GHz wifi is still slower than 100mbs. So all the gigabit stuff makes no diffrence.
 
I maybe getting my mbps and MB/sec confused but Im sure some people are getting transfers of about 100 MB/sec when transferring from windows...I maybe wrong

I get 10-20 MB/sec max - which I think equates to around 160mbps (through wireless)

Which is about right for the wireless on this router I suppose

Hence I guess the next step is to try a proper Gige laptop
 
tododo said:
I maybe getting my mbps and MB/sec confused but Im sure some people are getting transfers of about 100 MB/sec when transferring from windows...I maybe wrong

I get 10-20 MB/sec max - which I think equates to around 160mbps (through wireless)

Which is about right for the wireless on this router I suppose

Hence I guess the next step is to try a proper Gige laptop
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Are you sure its 20MB/s?

100mb/s gives you about ~ 12MB/s
 
Got mine the other day, chucked in my spare Agility 3 120gb ssd as the boot drive with Windows 7 on it.

Running it as a media/file server for the home but have a couple of questions for the experts & longer term users.

Got 4 HDD's that I can throw in it from my main PC (also W7), they contain my media files that I've backed up off my Netgear ReadyNas. Can I just throw them into the drive bays & they'll be picked up OK? - No need for formatting etc

Also for the shares, what is the best way to get them seen by an Apple TV 2? Just share with a Guest account or do I need to set something else up?

(Shares/RDP etc has never been my strong point :D )
 
You can just chuck in the drives and they will be seen by the O/S no need for formating.

I am unsure about the apple TV thing. I thought for apple tv's you had to run a itunes server. But i am likley wrong.
 
It's probably not the best place for this but worth a shot. Bought one of these and stuck a Sapphire HD 5450 in to run xbmc on it.

With Ubuntu, the open-source driver didn't play sound over HDMI, when I installed the closed-source driver, the green (I think) disappears from the display for a few minutes every 30 or so. Any ideas? Not a hardware fault as I tried two cards with the same chipset.

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