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Speed Up: NAS Wireless transfers

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-BigMac-

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Hi Guys.

I have a GoFlex Home 3TB NAS that i bought yesterday.

I wanted to use it for wireless backup of the 2 macbook pros and windows desktop that we have. the wireless backup speed is atrocious. i am talking 4mb read 3mb write.

At that speed to do a time machine backup of my current data on my macbook pro would take 330,000/3= 110,000 seconds or 30.5 hours, which is obviously useless.

Can anybody shed some light on their wireless NAS transfer speeds? And perhaps some ways to improve it?

Thank you :)
 
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mneblett

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Three questions, first:

1. What wireless router connection: 802.11n? 802.11ac? 802.11g?

2. Which MacBook Pro? (i.e., which airport card -- n? ac?

3. 4 megabits (Mb/s) or 4 megaBytes (MB/s, which would be 32 megabits/s)?
 
Count Blah

Count Blah

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Do the initial backup while wired, then perform incremental backups wirelessly.

I know it's a pain. I"m in the same boat. Backing up wirelessly from scratch is painfully slow.
 
simon48

simon48

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Count Blah said:
Do the initial backup while wired, then perform incremental backups wirelessly.

I know it's a pain. I"m in the same boat. Backing up wirelessly from scratch is painfully slow.
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Yeah, just do the full backup over ethernet. After that the deltas should be fine over Wi-Fi.
 
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mneblett said:
Three questions, first:

1. What wireless router connection: 802.11n? 802.11ac? 802.11g?

2. Which MacBook Pro? (i.e., which airport card -- n? ac?

3. 4 megabits (Mb/s) or 4 megaBytes (MB/s, which would be 32 megabits/s)?
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router is in n mode.

rMBP 15' 2013

4MB/s :)
 
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leman

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Oct 14, 2008
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What router do you have? An ac router might help. I have around 20MB/s with my Time Capsule, if I remember correctly.
 
simonsi

simonsi

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-BigMac- said:
Can anybody shed some light on their wireless NAS transfer speeds? And perhaps some ways to improve it?
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Turn off all other wireless devices.
Move closer to the router.
...and use a cable, all the other wireless devices will hate you for using all the bandwidth anyway...
 
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zzz99

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May 31, 2010
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I hope it is not too late.

I do get 20-30MB/sec with TC-AC when I transfer a file to Synology d110j NAS.

As for TM, it might not be that fast because they are in small files, you better do it through ethernet cable for the first time.


I expect more than just 20-30MB/sec with 867mbps, almost a giga.
 
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MrX8503

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Sep 19, 2010
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I have a WHS RAID setup that I back up to via wireless AC and get about 30-50MB/s. That's probably the best case scenario over wifi.

4MB/s is normal for wireless N. Like others have said, backup over Ethernet first.
 
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mvmanolov

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Aug 27, 2013
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blueroom said:
That's the OPs problem right there. It's a weedy CPU in that NAS, same with the Seagate Wireless+. Slow over WiFi or Ethernet.
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second that...

the WIFI capability is not always the speed impediment for NAS's

Check this out: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-charts/view

it may be time to sell that NAS and get yourself a better one... (there are some affordable NAS that will (or almost will) saturate both your WIFI as well as a Gigabit LAN...

Btw, i don't mean to be rude, but you really should do research before you buy anything....
 
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chrisn123

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Nov 26, 2011
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For non-Time Machine xfers, try mounting the NAS share via SMB (Command-K in Finder and type SMB://NameOfServer/VolumeName).

Not sure why, but AFP can be much slower than SMB over 802.11ac.
 
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jenzjen

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Aug 20, 2010
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for reference, getting 900+ transmit rate on a late 2013 mac pro to an ac extreme

wireless backup to a synology ds411 slim, I'm lucky to see 20mb, usually 10-15mb is typical, definitely a cpu issue on my nas not the wifi
 
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