>From a troubleshooting perspective it may be worthwhile laying hands on a stand-alone gigabit hub. Connect it to the super hub then connect your computer and WDMC to it. We have a 24port Netgear Gigabit router at the heart of our network - its the only way I can get acceptable file transfer throughput speeds.
Chris MacService On Tuesday, 24 February 2015 22:28:13 UTC, Graeme Nash wrote: > > Hi all, I hope you are well. > > > > I just purchased a 4TB WD MyCloud and have connected it to my Virgin Media > Super Hub 2. It all works fine, generally speaking, my only issue is with > network speed, in that it's very slow. I have spent about a week > troubleshooting but cant seem to find the reason. If I describe my set up > I wondered if anyone might have be able to give any clues as to why? I am > wondering if the router is the cause? > > > > - iMac connected to Super Hub 2 via gigabit port and CAT 5e ethernet. > - MyCloud connected to Super Hub 2 via CAT 5e ethernet. Both the > MyCloud and the Super Hub 2 are gigabit ports. > - Write speeds to MyCloud when on the network are avg 3-10MBps. > - If I connect the MyCloud to my iMac directly write speeds are > 25-50MBps (normal). > - The MyCloud is set to a static IP address. > - All firmware, OS etc are up to date. > > Something changes when connected to the network via the Super Hub 2 > although I am unclear why, as everything in the chain are gigabit > connections. > > > > Would anyone have any experience or ideas as to what might be causing slow > write/read speeds when set up this way? > > > > Many thanks for your help. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
