I am using Windows 8.1 on my laptop or Windows 7 on my local network server for my file management. Everyting goes over WiFi. I have TP-Link Gigbit USB3 as my connectivity pon each machine via a Netgear N600 duel router.
I figured it mwas makeing the round trip but when I go from machine to machine I get 5M or better speeds. It is ONLY whne I am going from the directly connected Element drive to the My Cloud drive do I get such slow speeds.
Pardon my ignorance but what does SSH mean?
I am copying files from /My Cloud/Public/Shared Videos/ … to /My Cloud/Movies/Comedy/…
I took a different approach for now… I took the My Cloud and Elements drives and plugged the directly into my laptop. Iwas then able to transfer files from the cloud drive (connected using the cat5) and the Elements was connected via the USB. I was able to get transfer speeds of 28M and better.
Thanks for the help though. I’ll keep it in mind for next time.
Supposedly if you use the WD MY Cloud app on a smartphone/tablet or the WD My Cloud Desktop software to copy or move files back and forth between the WD My Cloud and the attached USB storage on the My Cloud the copying goes much faster than using Windows Explorer on the PC (or similar application on the Mac) to move files between the two locations.
The user manual says that if you are transferring large amounts of data from a USB drive to the MyCloud, to connect the USB drive to the PC, not the MyCloud USB port…
I’ve found that even using SSH login, and using unix cp command, I didn’t get a good speed to/from the external USB. I think I concluded that the USB driver firmware in the MyCloud is just slow…