Minty Trebor
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I have successfully built a very fast (well I think its fast!) 9.3 Freenas box, and I am getting about 100 mb/sec (according to windows 10) sustained write speed to a 5 disk zfs pool, over CIFS. As you can expect I am very happy with this. I also have a working vbox jail, Logitech Media Server Jail, and Plex plugin/jail.
But I have a very strange wifi transfer speed issue - Only to the Freenas server.
(I understand that windows does not give accurate write speeds, but as a comparator in this instance I think they are fine)
Using the same Windows 10 laptop as I used for the wired speed tests and the same test file; However I can only reach 20 mb/sec sustained write over wifi.
My wifi is using the AC protocol (5Ghz) and if I upload the same file to different network share on a different machine (using basic windows network sharing) I see a sustained transfer speed of around 40 mb/sec over wifi.
The network has been in place for a number of years, and the wifi has consistently delivered around a 40 mb/sec transfer speed previously. I was running a Linux Mint build (on the same H/W) with Native ZFS prior to converting it over to Freenas. With the linux mint zfs pool, I used to get around 70 mb/sec wired, and 40 mb/sec wireless.
The wireless data is not taking a different route to the server compared to the wired data (all going through the same router and cables, except for the first hop over wifi of course). I run 2 Nics, and I have tried direct writing to both IP's, instead of server name, but this made no difference.
I have read the documentation around CIFS tuning and other posts spotted around the forum about tuning NICS, but I fail to understand why this speed drop is only to the Freenas box....
I'm probably missing something obvious, but any help or ideas would be appreciated....
Specs below...
Server:
Core i5
12GB Ram
Asus P7H57D-V EVO
2 Nics (1 onboard, 1 PCI-E)
5 disk ZFS volume/pool (2tb WD reds)
2 disk stripe volume/pool (60GB SSD's) - running jails only
But I have a very strange wifi transfer speed issue - Only to the Freenas server.
(I understand that windows does not give accurate write speeds, but as a comparator in this instance I think they are fine)
Using the same Windows 10 laptop as I used for the wired speed tests and the same test file; However I can only reach 20 mb/sec sustained write over wifi.
My wifi is using the AC protocol (5Ghz) and if I upload the same file to different network share on a different machine (using basic windows network sharing) I see a sustained transfer speed of around 40 mb/sec over wifi.
The network has been in place for a number of years, and the wifi has consistently delivered around a 40 mb/sec transfer speed previously. I was running a Linux Mint build (on the same H/W) with Native ZFS prior to converting it over to Freenas. With the linux mint zfs pool, I used to get around 70 mb/sec wired, and 40 mb/sec wireless.
The wireless data is not taking a different route to the server compared to the wired data (all going through the same router and cables, except for the first hop over wifi of course). I run 2 Nics, and I have tried direct writing to both IP's, instead of server name, but this made no difference.
I have read the documentation around CIFS tuning and other posts spotted around the forum about tuning NICS, but I fail to understand why this speed drop is only to the Freenas box....
I'm probably missing something obvious, but any help or ideas would be appreciated....
Specs below...
Server:
Core i5
12GB Ram
Asus P7H57D-V EVO
2 Nics (1 onboard, 1 PCI-E)
5 disk ZFS volume/pool (2tb WD reds)
2 disk stripe volume/pool (60GB SSD's) - running jails only