I am getting only about 2.5 MB/sec speed for my new “My Book Live” drive. It is connected to a Linksys router. I am accessing it from my laptop (wireless).
I also have an older “My Book World” drive connected to the same router. I get about 7 MB/sec for that drive. I have no idea why I get a slow speed on the new drive while the old drive gives a much better speed, under the exact same conditions. Firmware is up-to-date MyBookLive 01.04.06 : MioNet 4.3.1.12
Consider this and you may wish to test this theory. It could be your router. I’ve upgraded to an E2000 as the one I had was not gigabit and the data throughput between computer and the MBL is at full whack. I’ve not done a benchmark but can tell that there does not seem to be any slowness.
Actually, I use the NAS as storage for my video editing projects and the last transfer of video from a tape to computer was flawless. Not one frame was dropped and there was still bandwidth to spare as I was doing other things with the NAS as this was happening.
Still, chances are that your router’s fine, but check anyway.
Also another thought… Is the LAN port on your computer set-up correctly? Try turning off hardware TCP check-sum offloading and see if that has an effect. (Or turn this on if it is off.)
I wanted to close this with a final update in case it helps anyone. Just rebooting the drive solved my problem!! :smileyvery-happy: I had tried a lot of other things before that, but none of that worked.
If the MBL begins to slow down on you and you need to reboot it, let us all know on here. There could be an issue with the MBL where the longer it’s left running then the slower it gets. I reboot mine every-so-often just for the fun of it. Just to clear out any old cob-webs that might accumulate within the NAS’s Linux operating system.
