How to measure network speed on the MBWE

Summary:

What tools are you all using?

How to measure network speed on the MBWE

tcblack 28 Mar 2008 18:25

I can "feel" how slow the throughput is on the mybook. But I don't know how you folks are measuring it.
What tools are you using to measure the LAN transfer speeds on the Mybook?

Re: How to measure network speed on the MBWE

barefoot 29 Mar 2008 10:45

I too am interested in network speed of my MBWE, but I'm just your casual computer user so what I've done might not be 'technically' correct.

I pinged it with using a packet size of 65000 bytes a few times, and below are the results:

• best 12ms
• worse 32ms
• average 14ms

I take that to be average of 4642Bytes/ms = 4.6MB/s
(btw, I have 100mb switch in between).

I don't believe this is accurate and there 'might' be overhead of some sort affecting the rate as I have achieved actual transfer rate of 5MB/s for large 1GB files, which in itself is far too slow compared to say file sharing between two computers on my home network.

I'm very keen to get better rates out of my MBWE as I've bought it to store our un-compressed family videos and it doesn't play very well over of the MBWE whilst it plays perfect over a network off a computer share.

These are on my wishlist:

• Faster transfer (and I'm willing to kill non-essential services to minimise cpu load)
• Less power consumption (drive on standby via software);
• Telnet/SSH functionality (would telnet be less CPU intensive?)

Cheers

Re: How to measure network speed on the MBWE

Barryke 29 Mar 2008 20:14

I quote what WD support told me:

Dear 1,

Thank you for contacting Western Digital Customer Service and Support.

Our internal testing shows that the MyBook World's will transfer at 24-40Mbps (3-5 MBps) on a local network. The drive does not move data quicker because that is the maximum throughput that the enclosure's CPU can handle.

Sincerely,
Anthony M.

Western Digital Service and Support
http://support.wdc.com

Thus gigabit network is a mere marketing trick.

I've tested a *lot* and it will not perform any faster. I will however not return it to the shop because it runs linux, and i'll enjoy making this device more valuable by adding SNMP (i love graphs to find bottlenecks) and FTP (having to redo a 500GB transfer because windows hangs sucks. Ftp however can resume)

Re: How to measure network speed on the MBWE

GMac 23 Jul 2009 18:37

Hi, recently I've noticed that the transfer rate slowed on my local home network to 50-100 kbytes/s when I copy something from my PC to MBWE. I've restarted my rooter and MBWE adn checked the network settings on my PC (it is set to 100MB full duplex) and everything seem to be fine. Do you have any tips what could go wrong? Many thanx!

Re: How to measure network speed on the MBWE

GMac 25 Jul 2009 21:55

Using ping I also measured the mentioned speed of ~5MB/sec but Total Commander reports an average of 50-100 kbytes/sec while copying large files…

Re: How to measure network speed on the MBWE

GMac 26 Jul 2009 17:46

Hi, I found the answer to my question if anybody's interested:
the problem was with Total Commander, and solved by adding the following string to the file wcx_ftp.ini, section [General]:
UploadBlockSize=32768

I hope this helps others who encounter the same issue, have a nice day.

Re: How to measure network speed on the MBWE

Clark Army 11 Mar 2010 16:57

I cannot put the security in my files on mapdrive WD. Help me, thans.

Clark