slow network speed

[lemonkid]

Hi Alex!

You're a great guy! But i run a Mac. I will see if I can get something to monitor my network. And someone gave me the advise to close the twonky server. I will try that too. 

[lemonkid]

closing twonky nor media library shutdown have any effect, or minimal) on my hub network speed. The network can deliver high speeds but the hub does not 'accept' them. To the hub I can get 2,4 Mbytes (14Mbits/s) avareage, and 4  Mbytes(24 Mbits/s) maximum.

[e1375]

I am getting around 7MB/sec and consider it EXTREMELY SLOW.

WD should improve this.

It takes HOURS to copy to/from 60gb, 70gb, 80gb, 90gb folders. What's the design idea of a 1TB device that copies like a turtle?

Regards,

e1375

[Kermy]

Hi everybody

I insert a link to my post (in spanish) in wich I explain a CHEAP and perfect solution (at least for myself) obtaining GREAT transfer rates.

Transfer Rates SOLUTION

Is in the Spanish Forum so if anybody has problems with languaje or has ny questions contact me here (feeling lacy about translating it all now).

Hopping to be helpful.

[lemonkid]

Hola¡

No hablo castillian muy bien so I like to know what did you do exactly? You connected a cable between your computer and the hub and with WD discovery you then found the WDTV hub?

That's about what I can understand. But what did you do in English...  ?

[wdtvhub]

Google translate does a good job

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=ht...

[richUK]

Basically in English he directly connected his hub to his computer with a crossover ethernet cable.

Quote via Google translate.

I bought a crossover network cable cat 5 meters. 5 by 6 EURAC, I connected directly to the network port on my laptop to the hub , the program WD Discovery Hub will find me perfectly, I have assigned a name of network drive and I have a hard drive in the portable operation with the browser as the team itself, creating folders, moving and copying things, renaming ... we ALL and a super speed (100 Mb to give simple network cards).

To give you an idea, file it took hours 2 hours and 45 minutes to copy, today it has been copied in one minute and thirty seconds .

Now if I have a very good unit and fully operational, not only as a media server, but also as a backup system .

[Kermy]

Hi.

The google translation is pretty accurate.

Yes, I connected directly a crossover network cable from the laptop to the hub and now is like if I got another hard disk in my computer and transfer rates are really very good.

Hadn´t seen that simple and cheap solution on forums (may be) so I hope to be a little helpful to someone.

[wdtvhub]

Yeah never thought of it myself.

So just a laptop to Hub with crossover cable, and transfer movies from a USB drive plugged into the laptop.

What does the hub say to this when you connect it up ?

[Kermy]

I selected in the Network configuration wired, when I choosed Automatic gave some errors but the information is showing now IP 169.254.100.155  and 255.255.0.0 (dont knw where it took from

Anyway the WD Discovery program locates the Hub from the laptop with no trouble, assings to it  any unit letter you want (up to Z) and you got a new hard disk at your computer working perfectly, at great speed (at least for me) and can even go on using the hub to watch films, music or whatever you want.

Right now I am downloading a huge file (35 Gb) from the net directly to the Hub as I´ve got not enought space in my laptop for it. Also this way file transfer does not affect the wireless band wide if you want to be in Internet sametime.

Sorry for my poor english

Hope to be helpful.