Help me get this straight in my head :)

dav3evans

dav3evans

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I'm trying to work out the best theoretical way to hook up the kit that I have via ethernet, I'll list below what I'm using.

Homehub 3
PC
NAS
500mbps powerline adapters
Gigabit switch

Now, the HH3 is in the study downstairs, and all of my gear is up in the loft room. To get a solid connection, I've got the Powerline adapters hooked up, so that takes care of that. The conundrum comes with where to put the NAS.

Am I right in thinking that even if I have the PC and the NAS connected to the gigabit switch, which in turn is connected to the powerline adapter, the data will travel from NAS > Switch > Powerline adapter > HH > Powerline adapter > switch > PC? There isn't some way the transfer works so it effectively just goes between devices by only going through the switch and as such can make use of the gigabit connection.

I know it might sound like something silly to ask, but I'm just wondering whether there is a better way to organise this, given the kit I have is all different speeds.

Cheers,

Dave.
 
That's what I was thinking, though my transfer speed is a measly 20MB/s. There must be something wrong going off here.. any thoughts on best way to test what it could be?
 
If you're seeing 20MBps then it's obviously working at Gigabit speeds (although still slow).

I'd assign static IPs to the PC and NAS and then test with just them connected to the switch. You'd then know whether any external factors are slowing things down or not.

There's a chance it's just a slow NAS as many models are only capable of around 20Mbps on a good day. What's the NAS supposed to be capable of?
 
It's one of those little DNS-320 boxes, which I know aren't amazing, but I'm sure I've had more out of this thing.

Connecting them together directly with static IPs doesn't really change their speeds, so I'm guessing it's as good as it'll get, which if you leave it doing the disk test for a while, gets around 25MB/s read and 28MB/s write.

I went and tried it downstairs in the study as a test as well...didn't even get up to 1MB/s in either direction!
 
Cheap NAS, that's the problem..

Personally, I just make a cheap server and use that instead of a NAS.
 
Was bought a good while ago now, and thought I would resurrect it for some extra space. It'll still do the job ok, I was just trying to make sure that there were no other factors other than it being a bit naff keeping it running so slowly.

Cheers for the assistance!
 
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