LACP in Windows 10

[L.E.D]

So folks of LTT, I have been trying hard to get speeds greater than 111MB/s transfer over my home network, I have tried a bunch of scenarios but I just can't get this to work. I think it is because my switch isn't recognizing the aggregated ports on my desktop.

 

To include more details, my file server has a 3Gb link to my switch, and the switch recognizes the aggregation I can see it in the settings, but I am out of ideas as to how to make windows work.

 

I have tried bridging the two network cards on my desktop, that didn't work, I tried using "new-netLBFOTeam" in windows powershell, with TeamingMode LACP, I can see the NIC it created and it shows a 2Gb connection but I still can't see those speeds I should be.

 

Any help as to figuring this out would be amazing.

 

Hardware:

 

File server:

• MSI H81M-P33
• Intel Celeron G1840
• RNG-407-DualV2 - Dual port NIC
• 4 GBs of RAM
• 3 2TB HDDs in a ZFS configuration
• CX430 PSU (I think) 
• FreeNAS 9.3

Desktop:

• Asus Z97-AR
• Intel i7 4790k
• Realtek PCIe - Single port NIC
• 32 GBs of RAM
• 2 120GB SSDs - Raid 0
• 2 120GB SSDs - Stand alone
• 2 1TB HDDs - Stand alone
• R9 270X
• HD 7770
• Thermaltake 850w PSU
• Windows 10

The network:

• RT-AC3200
• RT-N66U
• PROCURVE J9028A - Switch connecting almost everything in my house
• ALL cables are Cat5e

Connection is as follows:

 

The N66U is just a wireless repeater.

 

Router -> 1Gb -> RT-AC3200 -> 1Gb -> J9028A

 

J9028A -> 3GB -> FreeNAS

J9028A -> 2GB -> Desktop

[Ssoele]

LACP only works if you have multiple data streams, so if you only test desktop > server, you will still have only 1GbE (SMB 2 only supports 1 stream, SMB 3 can work with multiple).

FreeNAS does not support SMB 3.0, so you can't take advantage of the multiple streams.

 

The only thing that can give you greater speeds is upgrading to 10GbE.

[L.E.D]

LACP only works if you have multiple data streams, so if you only test desktop > server, you will still have only 1GbE.

FreeNAS does not support SMB 3.0, so you can't take advantage of the multiple streams.

 

The only thing that can give you greater speeds is upgrading to 10GbE.

 

Well shit, is there a file server OS that does?

[Ssoele]

Well shit, is there a file server OS that does?

 

You can use Windows Server 2012 R2, that supports it.

[leadeater]

Yep refer to above post by @Ssoele. Link Aggregation or NIC Teaming is designed for multiple client to server usage not a single point to point data transfer. It can be possible to get it to work but never count on it. Try changing the load balancing mode on the FreeNAS team to balance-alb or balance-rr and see if that makes a change.

[leadeater]

Well shit, is there a file server OS that does?

 

 

You can use Windows Server 2012 R2, that supports it.

 

unRAID also support SMB3 as it uses SAMBA 4, seems FreeNAS supports it too. I haven't used either so don't know if they actually support SMB3 multichannel.

 

Edited.

[L.E.D]

You can use Windows Server 2012 R2, that supports it.

 

Hmm... have a Server 2012 R2 key laying around? haha

[leadeater]

Hmm... have a Server 2012 R2 key laying around? haha

 

Nothing to see here move along.....

[Ssoele]

unRAID also support SMB3 as it uses SAMBA 4, seems FreeNAS supports it too. I haven't used either so don't know if they actually support SMB3 multichannel.

 

Edited.

 

From what I've read, Samba 4.1 does not yet support SMB3 multichannel.

[leadeater]

From what I've read, Samba 4.1 does not yet support SMB3 multichannel.

 

Yea was just looking in to that now, seems so and also doesn't sound like it ever will.