NASLite Network Attached Storage

Don't understand what I'm seeing here on the Netgear Smart wizard utility.

I'm uploading large video files from a modest PC equipped with a GA311 gigabit card into the 100BT motherboard spigot on our new NASLite.

I'm seeing an average transfer rate of ~65MB/sec using a comand line file move command. How is this possible? I had always believed that 100BT was limited to ~20Mb/sec in real practice?

Speed of file transfer is consistent with the Netgear utility throughput indications.....This saves us lots of $$$ if it's true.

Hmmm are you sure you are not confusing megabits with megabytes? That or your motherboard does indeed have a Gigabit NIC. Obviously a 100Mbit NIC can not throughput more than 100Mbit/s and thats in theory, real life performance is lower.

It could also be that the metrics software is just seeing the initial packet streem and calling it good at that point. If the Gigabit NIC is sending to a 100Mb NIC then the packets are going to be stored and forwarded in the Switch cache. This would happen at wire speed until the switch cache for that port filled.

Mike

Ha! Apparently you called it. The manual still indicates only fast ethernet, but distributors are advertising it as gigabit

What is the chipset used for the ethernet?

Mike

eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xec00, 00:13:d4:e3:bc:ca, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link cde1.
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of cde1.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:D4:E3:BC:CA
inet addr:192.168.0.152 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:315655937 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:132403547 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:119408487 (113.8 MiB) TX bytes:3539458773 (3.2 GiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec00

Asus Terminator C3 - a generic ITX PC

A quick check shows thatthe card is a simple 10/100 ethernet chipset.

The reporting is messed up for some reason. My guess is a typo and it should be reading 65Mb and not 65MB.

Mike