How to measure network speed on the MBWE

summary:

What tools are you all using?

How to measure network speed on the MBWE

tcblack 1206728741|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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 1206787541|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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 1206821652|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

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)