Why are downloads so slow with mapped drive?

[dazzling]

Hi All. This is driving me nuts and be glad of any advice.

I am downloading fine locally using a i7 Win7 PC with a lot of RAM. Maxing out my fibre at 4MBs. However, when I configure SABNZB to save to incomplete/complete folders on a mapped network drive (linux based media server next to my TV) the d/l speeds vary from 100kbs to 700kbps. No other real network activity, Win7 shows 2-3% network utilisation on the 300Mbps wireless N connection.

If I download locally and then transfer the single unrared file to the mapped drive I get around 3-4Mbs transfer speed and so confused.

I have changed number of news server connections to 1.

Any advice appreciated.

Cheers

Darren

[shypike]

The traffic for the shared drive competes with the Usenet traffic.
How fast is your networking hardware 10Mbps or 100Mbps?

[dazzling]

I have a 300Mbps wireless connection.

[shypike]

Even so, WiFi is easily congested.
WiFi is particularly bad at sustained heavy traffic.
SABnzbd has little role to play in this.

[dazzling]

Thanks. Not very practical but I will try a wired connection or homeplugs (mains networking) to see if things improve.

[wariach]

i am also facing same issue having slow downloads