NASLite Network Attached Storage

I just recently set up a NASlite+ box running of a CD...It is a high-end server box. I stopped using my windows machine when I bought my iMac so I decided to turn it into a file server. The server has a GA311 Netgear gigabit card with the on-board NIC disabled in BIOS. I can connect from the iMac (has built-in gigabit NIC) and transfer files, but even on FTP I seem to be getting varying speeds anywhere from 3MB/s to 7MB/s (currently 5-7MB/s). Considering a lot of people are saying they are getting 9MB/s over FTP with a 100 NIC I would say something is wrong with my setup. Thanks ahead of time for any help.

Hi putneyj,

Can you post the info in the section Network Interface
http://yourip/Info/System.htm

Are you using a router and switch?

cheers

Eden

Yes I am using a Linksys WRT54G wireless router and a Netgear 5-port Gigabit switch.





Operating System

Linux 2.4.27.NASLite #6 Wed Oct 12 12:16:31 UTC 2005 i686

Uptime

16:25:01 up 10:30, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Processor (CPU)

vendor_id : GenuineIntel
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
cpu MHz : 3194.623
cache size : 512 KB
bogomips : 6370.09

Memory

total used free shared buffers
Mem: 516292 511780 4512 0 20996

Disks

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Device
System 7.7M 3.6M 4.1M 47% RAM Disk
Storage Area 91.7G 20.0k 91.7G 0% NAS Disk-1
Storage Area 229.2G 26.6G 202.6G 12% NAS Disk-2

Network Interface

Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
RTL8169 at 0xe0800000, 00:0f:b5:47:8d:75, IRQ 11
Auto-negotiation Enabled.
1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B5:47:8D:75
inet addr:192.168.0.124 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:19804062 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10158984 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4070920949 (3.7 GiB) TX bytes:670730534 (639.6 MiB)
Interrupt:11

hi M8

Take a look here http://www.serverelements.com/phpBB2/vi ... a4cbd#3294 use the tool and if you can report back..

Eden

I would gladly do that but I can't get the SMB share to mount in Finder and FTP is read-only in finder.

I just found out that I can connect to the SMB share usin smbclient in the terminal window, but finder still won't recognize it. I have tried the plaintext password hack,but it doesn't work.

Now my FTP connection is running at only 1.5MB-2MB/s. Again, any help would be greatly appreciated. I really want to get this working.

OK, I finally got the SMB share mounted, and I am currently running diskwriggler on it, but it is averaging only about 0.09 MB/s with a range from 0.05-0.20 MB/s. I just cannot figure out why my connection is so slow.

...dont' know if this helps but, I was getting 0.xx type of speeds on mine and it turned out the NIC was faulty or NASLite didn't like it. I dropped in a different 10/100 I had on hand and bam.. consistent 7.5-9.5 mb/s.

jw

Thanks, I will give this a try. I really hope it is not a faulty card, but some to think of it I don't think I have ever gotten full speeds out of it, so it is entirely possible.