slow connection from gentoo to my NAS box

mshmsh

Hi,

Problem: I get close to 7 MBps connecting from windows to my NAS box, but less than 4 MBps connecting from my gentoo box.

I have:
1. A gentoo box with a Realtek network card capable of 100 Mbps
2. An IBM laptop running windows XP
3. A D-Link entry level NAS server

These are all connected to via a D-Link router. For now I am running everything in wired mode.

I have mounted the NAS on my gentoo box using:

vad3r · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:23 am Post subject:

If your NAS box supports NFS too you should give it a try and see if there's a difference. Try to measure your network performance of your gentoo box with tools like netperf or bing to see if you have a problem on your gentoo box.
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