FreeNAS - Horrible transfer speeds

[Skydiver]

So I had not noticed until now that I have horribly slow write speeds on my NAS. I am copying a 5.54GB file and windows is showing me a 3.2 MB/s transfer speed, The previous big file I transferred needed an hour to copy because of this.

So here are my NAS specs:

3*4TB seagate NAS drives

16 GB of ECC RAM

i3 4170

my mobo is the asus P9DMV

 

I use power line adapters to get my internet but they shouldn't bottleneck as they can transfer up to 1GB/s. I searched online for an answer but cannot quite get a clear solution.

 

[AshleyAshes]

To start, no, your power line adaptors do not run at 1GB/s or 8 gigabits per second......

[Electronics Wizardy]

Feels like a issue with the powerline, try it with wired.

[Skydiver]

33 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

To start, no, your power line adaptors do not run at 1GB/s or 8 gigabits per second......

No you are right, they are marketed as 500 GB/s

20 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Feels like a issue with the powerline, try it with wired.

And with wired I get 100 MB/s, much better but still not what I expected. So now I guess I will have to open a forum entry in the networking sub of LTT. *sigh*

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 minutes ago, Skydiver said:

No you are right, they are marketed as 500 GB/s

And with wired I get 100 MB/s, much better but still not what I expected. So now I guess I will have to open a forum entry in the networking sub of LTT. *sigh*

100 MBS is the max speed of gig networking.

[Skydiver]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

100 MBS is the max speed of gig networking.

Oh ok thank you  I am still surprised that I cannot get more than 4MB/s out of the powerline adapter

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Skydiver said:

Oh ok thank you  I am still surprised that I cannot get more than 4MB/s out of the powerline adapter

 

Powerline and wifi are much worse than wired. The speeds of powerline are much lower than the rated speeds.

[Skydiver]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Powerline and wifi are much worse than wired. The speeds of powerline are much lower than the rated speeds.

Well still, they are rated as 500Mb/s which is converted around 60MB per second. I get 5MB per second, this is a massive difference.

[Electronics Wizardy]

24 minutes ago, Skydiver said:

Well still, they are rated as 500Mb/s which is converted around 60MB per second. I get 5MB per second, this is a massive difference.

Unlike wire, you can't get anywhere close to the rated speeds.

[gamerking]

run a Ethernet to the nas and your pc then try to transfer if its 80-120MB then its your powerline ( powerline is like asking for major issues ) .  get a ethernet cable  off of monoprice or amazon

54 minutes ago, Skydiver said:

Well still, they are rated as 500Mb/s which is converted around 60MB per second. I get 5MB per second, this is a massive difference.

they are rated in the best conditions ones in the real world would never happen . such as both of them are 6 in apart connected by home wiring and they then can state it reaches 1gb per second which is a total lie . your lucky if you get dial-up speeds on wiring that's older then the 90's  with powerline . either run a cable or just buy a wireless n/ac usb dongle and connect it  to your nas  then just use wifi  , there at least you will max out your drives before the network would .

 

edit i have tried powerline before i just ran a line to my nas  my house was built in the 40's so the wiring sucks i was unable to even get it to work in the same room . same circuit just from one end to the other . i then got 200ft of 10/3 wired it up and got like 1/100 of the rated speed just to see if they were DOA if i remeber which one it was i will post it in here was some tp link 2 or 4 port powerline adapter  . this wasn't run thur any walls just  a coil of residential wire made to work in the best conditions and still it sucked .

 

running Ethernet ant expensive only 20-80 for the cat cable and 15-25 for the connecters and LV surface mount boxes and plates . the tool costs more then most of the stuff you need to do the cable connecters

[Eniqmatic]

On 6/18/2016 at 7:34 PM, Skydiver said:

Oh ok thank you  I am still surprised that I cannot get more than 4MB/s out of the powerline adapter

 

By chance, did you happen to have the powerline connected to an extension or surge breaker at either end?

[gamerking]

10 hours ago, Eniqmatic said:

By chance, did you happen to have the powerline connected to an extension or surge breaker at either end?

nope into the wall socket i know the surge protector breaks powerline .

[Skydiver]

On 20/06/2016 at 9:53 AM, Eniqmatic said:

By chance, did you happen to have the powerline connected to an extension or surge breaker at either end?

No it is in the wall directly so it must be the power line adapter itseld but thank you very much for your suggestion