Synology DS212J Slow Download

[Predator04]

I have everything up and running but my download speed is only 1mb/sec i should be getting around 6mb/sec. it works fine on pc and im getting the correct speed. but with it on the nas im not getting close. am i doing something wrong? or is there something i can do to make it faster? thanks!

[shypike]

SABnzbd requires quite a a bit of CPU power and memory.
Your server is no match for your PC.
You can improve things by setting an article cache of about 128M in Config->General.
But only when you have ample memory.
Also, don't overdo it with Usenet server connections, usually about 15 per server is enough.

[sander]

@Predator04,

Considering what Shypike says, you could try to install and run nzbget on your Synology. Nzbget is less clever and less beautiful than SABnzbd, but it requires less CPU and RAM. I have nzbget running on my old mediaplayer with a 200 Mhz MIPS processor and little RAM, and that works.

[Predator04]

Awesome! Thank you both for the reply's! I will try nzbget and see how well that works.

oh and does anyone have a source i can add to get nzbget on my nas? Im extremly new to this nas thing...

Thanks again!

[Predator04]

I was able to find the source here.. http://packages.synocommunity.com/

Thanks again!

[Predator04]

OK i got nzb setup and now getting 2mb a sec. which is better but still isnt good! and it maxes out the cpu. am i doing something wrong or does this box not handle it?

[sander]

OK i got nzb setup and now getting 2mb a sec. which is better but still isnt good! and it maxes out the cpu. am i doing something wrong or does this box not handle it?

2 mb a sec or 2 MB a sec (or 2 mB a sec or 2 Mb a sec)?

See http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/faq#toc29

2 MBps is 20 Mbps and is nice speed. However, 2 Mbps (small b, thus bits) is very slow.

[Predator04]

2MB a sec. i have a 50mbps line. 2MB/sec is slow

[sander]

2MB a sec. i have a 50mbps line. 2MB/sec is slow

... switch hardware ...

[sander]

2MB a sec. i have a 50mbps line. 2MB/sec is slow

I've got a 30 Mbps line (VDSL), and my mediaplayer only gets only 1 MB/s = 10 Mbps with nzbget. So downloading a DVD costs 4200 seconds = a bit more than one hour. No problem so far, however ... unpacking/unrarring can take many, many hours. So I wonder: how long does unpacking/unrarring on your Synology?

Anyway: for fast downloads I use SABnzbd on my laptop: linespeed, and unpacking/unrarring only takes a few minutes.

[Predator04]

Yeah i was hoping to get it all running on one machine. I mean i have a show downloading and running 2 shows and its not lagging at all. im sure the exact time it takes to unpack but its far from a hour. maybe 10min? im not sure exatcly. but if i can just get better speeds this thing would be awesome! if anyone can help that has one or any tweaks that would be great. thank you!

[sander]

Yeah i was hoping to get it all running on one machine. I mean i have a show downloading and running 2 shows and its not lagging at all. im sure the exact time it takes to unpack but its far from a hour. maybe 10min? im not sure exatcly. but if i can just get better speeds this thing would be awesome! if anyone can help that has one or any tweaks that would be great. thank you!

According to http://www.synology.com/products/spec.p ... #p_submenu and http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.ph ... y_NAS_have your DS212J has a 1.2Ghz ARM Processor (Marvell ARMADA 300), which is not bad at all. Memory is 256MB, which is OK for non-GUI stuff.

So, yes, I too would expect a higher download speed when using NZBget (which is lean-and-mean). However, I do not know how to get it higher than 20 Mbps.

Oh wait: how many connections have you defined in the nzbget config? Check "Server1.Connections=" ...

[Predator04]

Yeah i was hoping to get it all running on one machine. I mean i have a show downloading and running 2 shows and its not lagging at all. im sure the exact time it takes to unpack but its far from a hour. maybe 10min? im not sure exatcly. but if i can just get better speeds this thing would be awesome! if anyone can help that has one or any tweaks that would be great. thank you!

According to http://www.synology.com/products/spec.p ... #p_submenu and http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.ph ... y_NAS_have your DS212J has a 1.2Ghz ARM Processor (Marvell ARMADA 300), which is not bad at all. Memory is 256MB, which is OK for non-GUI stuff.

So, yes, I too would expect a higher download speed when using NZBget (which is lean-and-mean). However, I do not know how to get it higher than 20 Mbps.

Oh wait: how many connections have you defined in the nzbget config? Check "Server1.Connections=" ...

right now i set it to 8 connections

[sander]

right now i set it to 8 connections

Well, then I'm out of ideas.

[Predator04]

Thanks for the help. Anyone else have any other ideas/>