I’m copying files to my WDTV Live Hub, and it’s going at about 12 MB/sec which is 96 Mbps
I thought this device had gigabit ethernet? I’m aware I won’t get anywhere near 1000Mbps but I should at least be getting 300-500Mbps on a gigabit connection.
PC and Hub are both on same gigabit switch. PC can copy at 40-60MB/sec to another PC on the same switch.
Have tried different cables / shorter cables, makes no difference.
Well as far as I know… using 100/10 ethernet which the HUB has, the max you can go is 100Mbps which is 12.5 MB/sec … so you are right on target for what the HUB and probably your modem/switch can handle.
I use MoCA adapters to stream and the most I get is about 68Mbps or 8.5MB/sec…
Please explain to me why it doesn’t run at a gigabit.
Hey… I clicked that link and noticed the feature listing Gigabit. I guess I never looked at that feature because I assumed from discussions and standard home-network’s were running 100/10 ethernet. But if WD is advertising gigabit ethernet as a feature and with the hardware you have all you can actually get is 12.5MB/sec…lol then WD has a bit of explaining to do!!
NO appliances with a Gigabit port runs at Gigabit, unless you paid a lot of money for it. Even my $1000 NAS doesn’t run at a full 1000 megabits per second.
NO appliances with a Gigabit port runs at Gigabit, unless you paid a lot of money for it. Even my $1000 NAS doesn’t run at a full 1000 megabits per second.
Please read my original post - I made it clear that I’m well aware of this fact.
Sorry, no insult was intended. Just a poke in the ribs. ;)
No, SATA/3 is 3 GIGABITS per second, not 300 megabytes.
And that’s just the performance of the SATA interface, not how fast a disk can actually get bits off and on the platters.
You do get SOME advantage of having a Gig interface. 12.5Megabytes per second, given the overhead involved, would not be possible on a 100 megabit connection. So you actually get about a 15% to 25% performance boost with a Gig interface.
GB Ethernet refers more to bandwidth on your network as supposed to speed. With 10/100/100, you have lots more lanes of traffic to work with, but the equipment/hardware you use has to be able to keep up…(hard drive speeds.Modem capacity)etc…
For instance… how fast can your HD transfer? are you using Internal/external drives(USB 2.0 or ESATA)?.. all factors!