its realy slow at transfering eta on 78 gig 2 weeks speeds reachead 1mb then droped i dont under stand why as i three media boxes a dunehd and patriot and there all fast as i bought this wanting to use the internal drive for storage but its way to slow
you’ve provided almost no info. except, trasfer is slow 1 mb/s
wired wireless, etc …
I’ll assume your using smb
regardless transfer to the hub is going to be slow
most I’ve ever heard of anybody achieving is 8 Mb/s via smb
network 1gbs billion router 7800n tplink 1 gig switch thecus nas 5 bay transfers to other media players arround 30mb on internal drives average speed across network 90mbs to 100mbs but to to the wd livetv hub slow as i have one of these http://dune-hd.com/eng/products/full_hd_media_players
and this one is the problem http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=570
i tryed static ip tryed direct conecting to it its just slow as transfering files to internal drive and i no wizz but my under standing ethernet is 10/100/1000 and i am pretty sure you are ment to get more then 1mbs
the gigE port on the hub is more of a marketing gimmic
the port supports 10/100/1000
but the CPU is too underpowered to move the data at 1000
why are you only getting 1 Mb/s - don’t know that’s very slow even for the hub
maybe check some of the NIC settings
flow control should be off
jumbo frames should also be off
both of these items usually negatively effect network performance
on another note 30 Mb/s over wired to an internal drive is slow as well
this is what I would expect for an external drive
I guess the 30Mb/s to other media players is probably cpu limited
yere it is on other but this one using the internal hardrive is just to slow if i use a seagate goflex 1tb 2.5 pluged in to usb and transfer over the net i get 10mbs i have done a lot reading arround what i am finding this seems to be a problem with a lot of people using the wd tv live hub internal drive the reviews that were done all sais same thing so i am hoping they find a fix to this as unit it self seems to have nice features but just the hard drive problem
Do you have remote access or Twonky enabled? If so, try disabling them.
no disabled still the same
Maybe it’s a cabling problem?
For what its worth, I’m only getting sub 1Mbs transfer speeds too. I’m connecting via wireless. A firmware update (or two) ago I was getting speeds slightly better - around 2.5 Mbs. Suddenly after one of the updates that rate dropped below 1Mbs and that’s where I am now. It’s not a huge deal but I would like to see this improve.
wireless is potentially a whole nother issue
best way to increase wireless transfer is improve the connection strength
i running hard wired tryed other media box and getting 30 to 40 mbs put wd back 1mbs but if i go through files side its faster but then drops i am starting to belive that there is a hudge bug in these wd live tv hub
Wireless: Be looking through your house for interference (RFI). Things like 2.4 Cordless phones, wireless speakers, widi/wifi direct TV’s, your neighbor at or near the same channel you use and a plethora of other things you wouldn’t even think will hose up your wifi speed. My problem transfering to the Hub on wireless was a Radio Shack wireless rear speaker system for my surround system. I moved the router to a different channel and got the speed up to par.
Change channel on router test to speedtest.net on a wifi connected PC. Kept at it till I found a clear channel here in the house.
Best I get on a wifi PC is about 2-3 MB sec on a wire from the other room I get 6-7 MB sec.
hammer25 wrote:
i am starting to belive that there is a hudge bug in these wd live tv hub
If this were a bug, it’d affect almost everybody.
I’m getting 8 megaBYTES per second, via WIFI, reading or writing to/from my Hub.
[root@mars temp]# time cp output.avi /tmp/
real 0m52.495s
user 0m0.009s
sys 0m1.302s
[root@mars temp]# ls -l output.avi
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 445871682 Dec 30 2011 output.avi
That means 445 megabytes copied in 53 seconds (roughly 8.5 megabytes per second, or 67 megabits per second.)
again i will say i am not using wireless it is hard wired and i think if you google there is 1000 of posts with simular problems slows speeds i have so had it network peeps out and also have confirmed same problem the unit it self is slow at moving files to internal hardrive
hammer25 wrote:
again i will say i am not using wireless it is hard wired…
I understand that. I’m saying that, even over WiFi (which is often slower than wired) my transfer speeds are 70x faster than yours.
hammer25 wrote:
if you google there is 1000 of posts with simular problems slows speeds i have so had it network peeps out and also have confirmed same problem the unit it self is slow at moving files to internal hardrive
That’s a very difficult concept to search for. Yeah, there’s thousands of folks who agree that it’s not as fast as they would like it to be, but finding thousands of people that have only 1 megabit per second transfer rates? No, I don’t think so.
In fact, reading your posts, I think you have VERY bad network problems. You say you only get 30 megabit per second transfer rates to a 5-bay NAS? That’s HORRIBLE performance. You should have in excess of 20 times that amount.
Transfers to my inexpensive WD single-disk NAS go upward of 50-60 megaBYTES per second, which is 20x what you’re geting.
If that’s not related, then the only other thing I can guess in your case is that your Hub’s hard drive is suffering and may be close to failure. What kind of speed do you get when copying to a fast HD that’s USB attached to your Hub?
hammer25 did you always get slow speeds with your system or did the reduction coincide with an update? I ask because I noticed a severe reduction in my transfer speeds (50 Mbps dropped to 7 Mbps) when I updated my router (Asus N56U). The update came about the same time as one of the WD fimrware updates so I thought it was the WD. I recently dropped back to an earlier firmware for my router and my speeds went back up to the 50 Mbps range. That’s using a wireless connection. Good luck with your network.
