I’ve been silently moaning about the transfer speeds to my storage devices.
Only today did I think to plug the network cable directly into the mesh satellite and not into a switch and over Powerline. 10x speed boost.
I’m an idiot and I’m posting here so I don’t get too cocky next time.
Feel free to laugh.
(“Advice” flair just on the tiny chance that someone else could be helped. )
Well, I was ranting about internet speed being lower than advertised after optics installation which should be 1GbE (I got only 300MbE) until I understood that the Asus router I bought a couple of days before that was just 300MbE.
Don’t feel too bad. I made a nearly identical post 3 years ago, it even has the exact same title: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/jdpkm7/im_an_idiot/
I transfered about 4TB of data and was annoyed my transferspeeds were not as advertised. I get 10Gbit can be hard to reach depending on system, and this was only mechanical drives, so I had some understanding…but still.
Then I noticed the connection I used was the wrong network, so I used my onboard ethernet instead of my NIC…and my switch was limited to 100mbps bandwidth…
After changing the IP of the network drive it was a big difference
My raid 5 hdds bench at 1GB/s but 1.25GB/s sustained wouldnt be easy. Still even 5x more speeds than gigabit is good but not when the orange pi 5 boasts 2x 2.5Gb/s NICs suddenly your hardware feels old. I have a sfp+ switch and a gigabit switch with sfp+ but none of the newer stuff. Sfp+ is cheaper than 10Gb ethernet as the switches cost a lot if you need 24 ports.
lol this is the data hoarding equivalent of plugging your monitor into your motherboard instead of your GPU
My raid 5 hdds bench at 1GB/s but 1.25GB/s sustained wouldnt be easy. Still even 5x more speeds than gigabit is good but not when the orange pi 5 boasts 2x 2.5Gb/s NICs suddenly your hardware feels old. I have a sfp+ switch and a gigabit switch with sfp+ but none of the newer stuff. Sfp+ is cheaper than 10Gb ethernet as the switches cost a lot if you need 24 ports.
Hardly. There are infinite stories of mistakes we’ve all made. Kind of you to share the warning.
Well over a decade ago, some complained about their speed, thinking they should see closer to 1Gb/s with their set up. I asked them to look at their ethernet connectors, 4 conductor or 8? These were 10/100, just 4 copper wires, as that was enough to get 100Mb/s.
They replied “I am a moron.” No they weren’t either. Easy to miss something when there are so many bits of stuff going on.
I feel like that when I meticulously examine every cable in a new computer build then forget to plug the power cable… /facepalm