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Why are downloads so slow with mapped drive?

Posted: October 30th, 2014, 12:45 pm
by 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

Re: Why are downloads so slow with mapped drive?

Posted: October 31st, 2014, 2:48 am
by shypike
The traffic for the shared drive competes with the Usenet traffic.
How fast is your networking hardware 10Mbps or 100Mbps?

Re: Why are downloads so slow with mapped drive?

Posted: October 31st, 2014, 3:00 am
by dazzling
I have a 300Mbps wireless connection.

Re: Why are downloads so slow with mapped drive?

Posted: October 31st, 2014, 4:58 am
by shypike
Even so, WiFi is easily congested.
WiFi is particularly bad at sustained heavy traffic.
SABnzbd has little role to play in this.

Re: Why are downloads so slow with mapped drive?

Posted: October 31st, 2014, 5:50 am
by dazzling
Thanks. Not very practical but I will try a wired connection or homeplugs (mains networking) to see if things improve.

Re: Why are downloads so slow with mapped drive?

Posted: January 20th, 2015, 3:21 pm
by wariach
i am also facing same issue having slow downloads