MLB2TB transfers slowed from 5.5MB/s to less than 2MB/s suddenly

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Hey everybody, first post here, but I sure have been looking around and reading a lot getting this NAS setup. All seems to be going pretty well with a few quirks here and there. With that said…

I’ve been transferring movies from my laptop over to the NAS, little bits at a time and am almost done with them. My collection so far is pretty small, ~100GB and I’ve moved around 90GB so far. Until yesterday, I was getting about 4.0-4.5MB/s transfer speeds. Then while I was downloading another movie, the transfer speed dropped to less than 2MB/s, so I realized that I had my wireless N router switched to only G mode, so I went and switched it to N mode and all of a sudden the transfer speed went up to 5.5MB/s, so I’m thinking great! Downloading movie was as fast as usual and so was movie transfer.

Then later that day I go to transfer the movie to the NAS and speeds are around 500KB/s to 3.0MB/s, but mostly on the lower end of that range.

I didn’t change any other settings. The MBL isn’t streaming anything so I know it shouldn’t be busy. No backing up anything or creating libraries, etc… The size of the movies has been roughly the same, between 1.5-3GB.

Any ideas what could have happened? I haven’t tried using ethernet from my laptop to router yet, will in just a few minutes though.

Setup is: Laptop (wireless N, 10/100 nic) → Netgear WNR834B 10/100 draft N → MyBookLive through cat6 cable.

I know I need a new gigabit router with the new true wireless N, but not sure if it’s in the budget right now.

Thanks for any help!

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I just transferred a 1GB video file through ethernet cable hooked straight to my router and the speed was 7-11MB/s, averaging at 10MB/s, according to TeraCopy.

So the problem must be with my wireless connection then, right?

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Well, I’ve narrowed the problem down to my laptop’s built-in wifi by connecting a USB Cisco Wireless-N dual-band wifi adapter. Now I get speed around 5.5-7MB/s which seems OK, even staying above 5MB/s while downloading  content at 3MB/s from the internet. So, guess I’ll stick with the USB adapter for now.

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Just curious…u say u r now getting 3mb/sec download froom the internet…what speed of service is your ISP providing?

I have 12MB/sec DSL and in downloading it pulls a max of 1.3MB/sec

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Ah yeah, I get those B’s mixed up sometimes… my DSL is pretty slow due to my distance from the phone box so the max I can get is 3Mbps, so, I suppose if I do the math right (maybe not?) I should be able to max around 384kBps, which I rarely do, usually around 340kBps.

Just until recently I couldn’t have told you what the conversion between bits and bytes and kilo this and mega that is, but I’m learning! Haha… probably common knowledge for most folks on here…

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Haha, well cos of your post I went and did some reading and learned a couple of things!