Hi All,
I have repurposed my old laptop with an i5 processor and 4GB RAM(I know it's less) as a NAS Storage device which is connected to my Archer AX50 router through ethernet. I have even used a USB to ethernet adapter just to make sure I having a gigabit port on both the laptop/NAS and the router. The laptop is using an HDD internally though. When I transfer the file say a video file through my Laptop (which is wirelessly connected to the network) to the NAS it is giving me a speed somewhere between 2 MB/s to 6 MB/s which considering the potential of the Gb port and taking into account some interference and signal loss is still way less than what it should be. I was expecting maybe 40 MB/s but it is not the case.
I even went wired and the results are the same. Also, don't have any way of going wired permanently for now so don't want that as an option. The wireless band is 5GHz and I tried different channel widths like 80, 160 and even 40 MHz but to no avail. Am I doing something wrong here? or missing something? Is there any bottleneck as I am using an old laptop or is there something that can be done for this? I have been through multiple forums but could not find anything substantial. I tested it on MacBook Pro M1 as well and it's the same on wireless as well. Did not have the dongle so could not check the wired speed but definitely, wireless is lacking.
PS: The router supports WiFi 6 while the network card on the laptop is WiFi 5. But I have tried the file transfer on my OnePlus 8 Pro as well which supports WiFi 6 and it is the same story so even android to NAS is limited. Any help would be appreciated. Considering I am just starting out with NAS anything dumb I have mentioned in the post, make sure to point that out too.
I have repurposed my old laptop with an i5 processor and 4GB RAM(I know it's less) as a NAS Storage device which is connected to my Archer AX50 router through ethernet. I have even used a USB to ethernet adapter just to make sure I having a gigabit port on both the laptop/NAS and the router. The laptop is using an HDD internally though. When I transfer the file say a video file through my Laptop (which is wirelessly connected to the network) to the NAS it is giving me a speed somewhere between 2 MB/s to 6 MB/s which considering the potential of the Gb port and taking into account some interference and signal loss is still way less than what it should be. I was expecting maybe 40 MB/s but it is not the case.
I even went wired and the results are the same. Also, don't have any way of going wired permanently for now so don't want that as an option. The wireless band is 5GHz and I tried different channel widths like 80, 160 and even 40 MHz but to no avail. Am I doing something wrong here? or missing something? Is there any bottleneck as I am using an old laptop or is there something that can be done for this? I have been through multiple forums but could not find anything substantial. I tested it on MacBook Pro M1 as well and it's the same on wireless as well. Did not have the dongle so could not check the wired speed but definitely, wireless is lacking.
PS: The router supports WiFi 6 while the network card on the laptop is WiFi 5. But I have tried the file transfer on my OnePlus 8 Pro as well which supports WiFi 6 and it is the same story so even android to NAS is limited. Any help would be appreciated. Considering I am just starting out with NAS anything dumb I have mentioned in the post, make sure to point that out too.
