slow Data transfer rate

I am using dockstar as NAS. It is attached to router through ethernet cable. My laptop is connected to router through wireless connection. I am getting very slow data transfer rate. Max speed i am getting is 1.5Mbps but usually i get only 240kbps. I have changed file system to ext3 and i have stored all my network data that i access is on NTFS file system. How do i increase data transfer rate. My router support n draft. Please help.

Did you try data transfer without wifi? If you reach higher transfer rates with 100/1000Mbit there might be a problem with your wifi connection. Look at the hotspot's channels around and choose a none taken channel to minimize collisions with other networks or wireless phones if your N uses 2,4GHz.
Also try data transfer from NTFS to NTFS without using the dockstar. What are the rates then?

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shyd

Goflex Net 3.9.5 | Dockstar 3.9.5 | http://dev.shyd.de

My router has only one ethernet port, so i havent tried that. My laptop dont have N draft. I tried copying data from HDD directly with USB cable and max speed is 12.5Mbps to ext3 ubuntu partition and i get same max speed in NTFS to NTFS copy mode.

shyd Wrote:
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> Did you try data transfer without wifi? If you
> reach higher transfer rates with 100/1000Mbit
> there might be a problem with your wifi
> connection. Look at the hotspot's channels around
> and choose a none taken channel to minimize
> collisions with other networks or wireless phones
> if your N uses 2,4GHz.
> Also try data transfer from NTFS to NTFS without
> using the dockstar. What are the rates then?

If your laptop doesn't support N draft 1.5Mbps are acceptable rates. If you copy a huge amount of small files the transfer rate decreases, that is normal. What rates do you get when copying large files?

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shyd

Goflex Net 3.9.5 | Dockstar 3.9.5 | http://dev.shyd.de

This is what I am getting while transferring large files. The file size usually more than 2Gb which takes more than 20 to 30 min. On G draft max supported speed is 54mbps. Is there any way to increase speed than 1.5mbps.
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shyd Wrote:
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> If your laptop doesn't support N draft 1.5Mbps are
> acceptable rates. If you copy a huge amount of
> small files the transfer rate decreases, that is
> normal. What rates do you get when copying large
> files?

Maddy Wrote:
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> This is what I am getting while transferring large
> files. The file size usually more than 2Gb which
> takes more than 20 to 30 min. On G draft max
> supported speed is 54mbps. Is there any way to
> increase speed than 1.5mbps.
> is there any way to in

Upgrade laptop to 802.11n that your router supports, or buy an ethernet switch, or momentarily connect directly to the DockStar using static IPs.

I think we have to clarify things. Do you mean Mbps (Megabit per second) or MBps (MegaBYTES per second, MB/s)?

When you say LAN2LAN is about 12.5Mbps you probably mean MBps, because your connection is 100Mbps. 100Mbps/8=12.5MBps (MB/s). Which means that you use 100% of your maximum speed.

Now you have a Wifi connection with 54Mbps. Divided by 8 = 6.75MBps including all headers and frame data. It's quite normal that you only get about 1.5MB/s.

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shyd

Goflex Net 3.9.5 | Dockstar 3.9.5 | http://dev.shyd.de