I paid about $500 for my 6TB WD Duo Live so I can backup files from different locations. I am seriously disappointed in this product and WD customer service. I often get about 2kb/sec transferring files. I have tried playing with UPNP, and also forwarding ports manually, and all seems fine as far as the firewall goes when I log into the hard drive (no relay connection)…
2kb/sec!!! Ridiculous … It is consumer fraud to even offer this product for sale and advertise remote access. I’m not behind any crazy firewalls, and I’m pretty well versed with networking. I have comcast internet at both locations.
I contacted customer support and got a generic form answer.
I am out $500 … Unless there is a solution, people should stay away from this garbage device.
No firewalls, I installed the network at both locations. I have a DIR-655 D-link at one location, and a Linksys wrt54gs2 at the other … both very common routers. I know the linksys is not the best router but it is very common and works.
Here’s the deal and what I’ve concluded. Maybe you can tell me if I am wrong. I can get faster upload speeds, but the handshaking that goes on per file is so ridiculously slow, that backing up a large amount of files is virtually impossible. Therefore, on average, when I am transferring multiple files, I average 2k/sec. I can see each file name pop up that transfers, and I see how painfully slow it moves from file to file. If I were to transfer a small number of large files, then yes, it seems that the transfer speed is acceptable (nothing impressive or even close to what my bandwidth should allow but acceptable). Transferring just a few gigs of documents or photos is practically impossible, and that is unacceptable. That is what most people buy this product for and you essentially can’t do it. For now I will zip some of the documents and transfer them that way, but I shouldn’t have to do that. This device was supposed to simplify things for me, not make them more complicated,
If FTP doesn’t support upload then I can’t really narrow anything down because the whole problem is with uploading large numbers of files. Anyone else care to use WD2go to upload a large amount of small files and see what speed you get?
Well, this type of performance parity is actually quite common. It’s not just a WD 2go issue. If the latency across a network is high, the protocol will struggle with the setup/tear down of each transfer and can never “ramp up” the transfer rates.