First, I want to thank everyone’s contributions to the forums. I read through the forums for days before deciding on buying the My Book Live. It was a great help and greatly affected my decision to go with WD.
So far, setting up the NAS has been a relative breeze. There’s been a few kinks that I haven’t yet worked out with USERS and SHARES. It’s showing up as a computer on the network on my laptop, but on my PC it’s showing up as a Network Storage device.
What’s bothering me however is the speed of the Web UI. It’s very slow to save changes. Sometimes when I try to save I will get a network error, but when I click save again it will update (slowly). Is this common? I should say that my wireless transfer is 8MB/s wirelessly and 50MB/s wired. These are sustained speeds. I’m using a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH router. I’m very pleased wih the setup, and tomorrow I have Cat6 cables coming in. Currently I’m using Cat5e. I’m hoping that this will give me a noticable boost in wired transfer rates.
Any help with the UI speed would be greatly appreciated.
On a side note, is it possible to use the NAS without installing the WD Quickview and SmartWare? Also, am I still able to manage the USERS and SHARES without using this software? Some of my computers are Macs and others PCs, so I will be figuring out my own backup solution software.
The first thing I did was setup a static IP. I have since upgraded to the new firmware and the speed is the same.
Let me clarify what I mean by ‘slow’. When I accesss SHARES, for example, from the web UI it takes ~3-5 seconds to load. Then, after I make user restrictions to the share and press save, it will take ~10-15 seconds to save.
The transfer speeds are great like I said. I got my CAT6 cables in, so I will post those once I get it setup.
In terms of the UI though, are you guys experiencing similar speeds of the interface?
Right. I would class that as a bug too. I’ve had an instance where I was making changes to a user and the Web UI times out with an error but I was still logged in on a SSH Telnet session directly to the Linux operating system and a few ps- AFH commands one after the other showed that the process the Web UI had initiated were still running.
So, the Web UI reported a failure but in the background out of sight and sound the entire process seemed to complete.
I’m noticing there are still quite a number of bugs floating about within the MBL.
Let me clarify that the webUI is never going to be “Fast” - it’s just “Fast-er” with a static IP. I don’t know why it’s so slow, but its a minor inconvience. Hopefully they will speed things up in a future firmware.
Hey Ard, I’ll take it by your comment that you experience similar interface lag?
By what Myron said above, he is also getting intermittent errors. I can live with that, but the slow interface/lag is annoying for the initial setup.
I’m still tweaking it, but once it’s finished and I save the settings to a file I imagine everything will be great. Just gotta push through. I’ll mark the thread as SOLVED, though I’m reluctant to. :smileyvery-happy:
I do indeed see a bit of a lag. It’s annoying, but it’s not the end of the world. Once I set the drive to a static IP it was a lot faster (it took a full minute to switch screens before this) but still not as fast as I’d like. If the drive wasn’t so good it would be a bigger issue than it is, but since you rarely have to go into the Dashboard, it’s nothing more than a minor nuisance to me.