What am I missing? NAS/FTP

gumbald · 20 Jan 2008 at 11:01

Something obvious I haven't done?

I've just got an IcyBox NAS, all the services seem to be working, I've port forwarded 21 to it, to enable FTP access remotely.

I can access it remotely, but download from it at speeds of 5-6k, when the line maxes out at ~63k... This is shown by someone on an identical connection being able to upload to it at ~60k. I know it's not a problem with the NAS, as I can FTP over the LAN and transfer at ~10Mbps.

zetec452 · 20 Jan 2008 at 19:38

Does the FTP software use passive FTP? If so it may be worth opening passive FTP ports.

gumbald · 20 Jan 2008 at 20:07

I did turn off passive FTP to try and force it to use 21, but that had no effect. I've tried using SmartFTP and the built-in Windows capabilities, but get the same slow speeds.

Thebug · 20 Jan 2008 at 20:30

I was only getting 4mb/s with mine no matter what i tried

gumbald · 20 Jan 2008 at 20:37

I've now tried downloading a file from the thttpd server I've installed and get the same speeds, so it seems like it's an issue with the NAS rather than the port forwarding. Maybe I should move over to the IcyBox NAS forums.

Or could a mod move this thread to the Hard Drives forum please, seems that's where it should be more... Does one hang around here much?

Thebug · 20 Jan 2008 at 20:52

Ask for help here - they are prety quick and helpfull - only problem is the sign up process is not in english

The english board is at the bottom

http://forum.nas-4220.org/

gumbald · 20 Jan 2008 at 20:59

I've been using Google to translate those pages to try and work out the torrent options

Signed up now though.

Downloading the MTU modifier and changing the MTU to match that of the router (1458) did the trick