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Okay so I'm gonna keep it short and simple. I have finally setup my home server and at the moment it only has 1TB of shared storage. However when I access it on devices Im getting slow speeds (4-12KB) Here's my specs:
-Gigabit switch
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8GB Ram
FreeNAS
i5 CPU
My Laptop is brand new and not slow, I dont know the specs. Im confused as why the network takes a while to log into and transfer speeds peak at around 1MB/s
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Since this is going to annoy me, speeds are kb, mb or gb (not caps) - referencing bits and not bytes.
As for the speed it sounds like your throughput on the line is lower than the gigabit switch can handle. What sort of Ethernet are you using? Upgrade to cat5e and check your NIC speeds. Could also be interference on the line Potentially (though unlikely)
Don't forget just since you have a gigabit switch doesn't mean you will have a gigabit speed. Each point on the link has to be gigabit enabled to get that speed. Otherwise your throughput will be bottlenecked.
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Is it possible that it is the read/write of the drive itself? I would presume it's a second hand drive, which means it could have performance degradation.
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