slow network speed

[TonyPh12345]

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lemonkid wrote:

Maybe you should read my message again.......???? I only get 12 to 17 on USB I wrote NOT with another connection!

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Ah!  So you did.   My mistake!  

[lemonkid]

@TonyPH,

Hey but how do you get such a fast connection. I mean to me your 8Mb/s is some superspeed! You work wired? I use a homeplug from my modem to the WDTV. This should enable around 35Mb/s I tested it with my computer while downloading through the homeplug from internet.

From my macbook wireless to the modem gives my much higher speeds. Still after testing the WDTV it gives no more than a top of 4Mb/s from computer through the modem to the homeplug.

How do you get the superspeed..?

[TonyPh12345]

I think it'd be helpful to not use abbreviations. I get 8 megaBYTES per second quite easily. Wired or wireless.

[TonyPh12345]

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TonyPh12345 wrote:
I think it'd be helpful to not use abbreviations. I get 8 megaBYTES per second quite easily. Wired or wireless.

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I was just called out iby a user about this.  Hee hee!    And I have no problems backing up my statements.

Here's a screen scrape;   I was just copying a file off the USB Stick in my WDTVLIVE running 1.03.49  via Wireless Network (WUSB600N to Linksys E3000) to my Win7 PC which is wired.

The average was around 9.5 but I got bursts up to 11 Megabytes per second during this copy (it's hard to react fas enough on those Screen-Grab keys t to get those scrapes though!)

Acchh!  Just realized we're talking about the HUB.

Here's a copy TO the Hub via WIRED network, with slightly better performance...

[OG_CpTHOOK]

Well....  for the record, I am the user TonyP is referring to.  Wireless at 9.2 is amazing! 

Here is my sustained speed from PC to Live Plus on my wired MoCA network.  I'm amazed that it is almost the same as your wireless!  I get slightly lower speed from PC to HUB...about 8.5MB/sec.  Im assuming the speed is lower to HUB because of the chipset it uses but that is just a quess...

[TonyPh12345]

Just putting some math to this can help ya'll understand.

The Live / Live+ have the same Ethernet interface.  They're actually the same chipset; the Plus just includes hardware DRM but the rest is pretty much the same.

It's a 100 megabit per second interface.   

When Windows 7 shows the throughput, it's REAL throughput; as in how many bytes per second of the FILE are being moved.

A touch over 11 megabytes per second is getting close the MAXIMUM POSSIBLE; that would equate to 88 megabits per second.  Once you tack on the overhead for the SAMBA, TCP, IP, and Ethernet protocol layers, you're getting right up to the maximum of 100 megabits per second.

The Hub has the same chipset as the Live+, but it uses an EXTERNAL Ethernet interface via the Chipset's built-in PCI bus interface.  So, if you actually have a Gigabit Ethernet network end-to-end, you can go over that limit of 100 megabits per second, but not much, because the Sigma Processor just isn't made to move a lot of data at high speeds.  

And if you're using a clean Wireless N netowrk, it's going to hit the Processor's limit far sooner than it'd hit the theoretical 300 megabit per second N limitation...

[Phil1020]

I took a look at that page, the solution being to using a coxial network? Id be satisified with just getting a few MB/s vs 800kb/s.  Also I have wired ethernet running through most of the house, so that isn't really a problem.

I tried transferring files with my laptop plugged in direct to the router.  I get transfer rates of 1.07 MB/s.  So its a bit faster, but I feel like it should still be possible to get it going a bit more.

Any additional ideas? Thanks!

[TonyPh12345]

Phil, is there any possibility that some part of your hardware only supports 10 Megabit per second ethernet?

[lemonkid]

It could also be the case in my situation. I mean that SOME parts only support 10Mbits. I reach up to 2 Mbytes/s average. That is around 12Mbits which is close to 10Mbits. I can reach around 40Mbits on my homplugs even though they are sold as 200MBits/s. But wireless I can go  higher.

What you suggest us to do:

1) Go wireless ( not advised by WD )

2) buy certified 100 of higher ethernet cables and switches etc.

In my present set uo I can beam HD1080p movies from internet to my WDTV. But I get problems if I am backing up and want to listen to internet radio at the same time.

[sopenco]

Yesterday I finished transferring the episode 1 of season 1 of my favorite TV program.
The transfer is a little slow .....
Today airs episode 10 of season 6.
The transfer is a bit slow??
In these times when a file is in sizes 6 or 7 gb, a transfer rate of 12 MB / S maxima is a PLAIN SHAME !