Router Bottleneck?

[RockerBug17]

So, it Saturday morning. I wake up, brush my teeth, start catching up on the happenings of the interwebz while I slept. I come across some blogs/forums forums talking about LGA775 to LGA771. I start scouring eBay for compatible parts, find a MOBO that appears would make a solid NAS, do some research on similar builds and blah, blah, blah.

 

Eventually I decide to test the read/write speed of my current NAS (Javelin S4). Here are the averages of 15 runs: read 4.29MB/s, write 4.32MB/s. I then think, hmm I wonder what would happen if I went directly from the LAN port on my NAS to the LAN port on my rig (Maximus V Gene, 3570K)? Average of 10 runs: read 12.12MB/s, writes 11.44MB/s. Some spikes over were 15MB/s.

What the Funk and Wagnalls is going on? Is my router bottlenecking the performance of my NAS nearly 3 times?! It was free from my ISP but damn, if it's causing such a bottleneck then I need to replace it ASAP.

[Destin]

Asus makes some nice routers

[luke_2bossly]

I have an asus router..... Oh they are so nice! The range man..... my goodness.... I get 5 bars down the street lols

[Darren]

Sounds like you have a 100Mbps interface on either the NAS or your PC, so I wouldn't go spending too much...

[RockerBug17]

Thanks for the suggestions Destin and luke_2bossly, but I'm not asking for router suggestions. I'm asking if a router can bottleneck a NAS. Clearly, my router is bottlenecking my NAS but I've never heard of anyone else talk/ask about router bottlenecks.

 

Darren, I checked my NAS Ethernet Speed while it was connected to my router. It came up as 100Mbps. When I made a direct connection from my NAS to my PC it changed to 1000Mbps. So, you're right, my router is only 100Mbps.

 

Looks like it's time to get started on my pfsense and FreeNAS projects I've been putting off

[twosome]

Thanks for the suggestions Destin and luke_2bossly, but I'm not asking for router suggestions. I'm asking if a router can bottleneck a NAS. Clearly, my router is bottlenecking my NAS but I've never heard of anyone else talk/ask about router bottlenecks.

 

Darren, I checked my NAS Ethernet Speed while it was connected to my router. It came up as 100Mbps. When I made a direct connection from my NAS to my PC it changed to 1000Mbps. So, you're right, my router is only 100Mbps.

 

Looks like it's time to get started on my pfsense and FreeNAS projects I've been putting off

 

 

Go pfSense!, just installed one here myself.