VERY SLOW TRANSFER RATE/CONNECTION ISSUE TO WDTV LIVE - please help

eugenez · October 3, 2010, 4:44pm

Hi,

please help! i 've searching online for help on this issue:

i brought a new WDTV LIVE box and updated the firmware to BRAD, and i connected it to my VOOD/tilgin router (which i’ve been using for more than 2 yrs and its fast on WiFi 802.11G)… the problem is accessing the WDTV ext HDDs (1TB each via port mapping on Win 7) is soooooooooooooooooooooooo slowwwwwwwwwwwwww… it takes like a minute to display the folder contents and i tried via FTP with user/pass it is also not loading the /dev directory.

i executed a simple ping to check the WDTV reachability and it is not good, it might be the problem - but i’ve tried different ethernet cables, same issue.

C:\Users\Eugene>ping 192.168.1.4 -t

Pinging 192.168.1.4 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 192.168.1.4: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64

Request timed out.

Reply from 192.168.1.4: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64

Request timed out.

Reply from 192.168.1.4: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64

Request timed out.

Reply from 192.168.1.4: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.4: Packets: Sent = 13, Received = 7, Lost = 6 (46% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 1ms Control-C

ANY IDEA WHAT COULD BE THE PROBLEM? I M UNABLE TO COPY OR PASTE FILES TO AND FROM THE DEVICE, AND IF I COULD IT DOES AT AROUND 2 kB/S !!

TonyPh12345 · October 3, 2010, 6:05pm

In general, since you’re running WDLXTV, you need to be asking THEM for help.

But what you’re showing here is that you have network problems since it’s dropping so many PINGs.

Since it’s dropping pings, it’s probably also dropping OTHER packets, which will slow network transfers to a crawl.

eugenez · October 6, 2010, 6:42pm

prob fixed

just replaced the router with a new one - im getting transfer rates at 1MB/s on 802.11g

not so fast but much better though