Samba speeds

englishpremier · 22 Dec 2014 at 14:40

If samba just horrendous when copying files or is it just my set-up?

Trying copy a 3gb file from my macbook (wifi n) to my ubuntu desktop, and it's estimated at taking 4 hours.

It's a similar time when using my router as the file server isn't of the ubuntu box.

Oddly I can download the file via wifi in much less than half the time.

englishpremier · 23 Dec 2014 at 08:40

This is what I got over wifi.

It looks decent to me for wifi N.

Code:

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Client connecting to 192.168.1.69, TCP port 5001
TCP window size:  129 KByte (default)
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[  4] local 192.168.1.64 port 54853 connected with 192.168.1.69 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[  4]  0.0-10.0 sec  76.2 MBytes  63.8 Mbits/sec

Presumably that means there is a samba setup problem.

englishpremier · 23 Dec 2014 at 14:15

Ah I got my Mb and MB mixed up there. So for wifi n considering the router is only 2 meters away 63Mb/s is actually terribly poor.

englishpremier · 23 Dec 2014 at 17:12

Steveocee said:
Wifi is a convenience and really isn't the best tool for moving large files. Try changing the wifi channel in case it's some kind of congestion locally but in fairness, in the length of times it's probably taken you to write the OP and read the responses, you probably could have thrown a cable in and copied the file.

That wouldn't be easy. The device doesn't have an ethernet port. I'd have to order a thunderbolt to ethernet adapter, which would arrive in a couple of days. Royal Mail - great bandwidth, terrible latency

englishpremier · 27 Dec 2014 at 10:41

The router states the connection at 300Mbit.