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[skywalkr2]

I bought the DNS-323 along with a wireless N router to allow wireless access to the network backup with decent speed.  My laptop has an N adapter and attaches to the router properly.  The wireless router is megabit ethernet and connected via CAT5 to a switch downstairs.  On that switch is the DNS-323.

Over this network setup... I am only getting like 120KB/second.  100GB or so takes half a day.... If I am lucky.

Is this a normal transfer time?  I was hoping for more.

[jamieburchell]

For me, Wireless N > Router > Megabit Ethernet > DNS 323 is much quicker than that. I suspect the slowdown is between your switch and router. Can you connect the DNS 323 to the router directly, at least to test?

[skywalkr2]

I'll give it a shot soon.  If this is the issue... What could be a solution?

[fordem]

First - I would suggest not trying to move "bulk" data over wireless, you will find it quite challenging.

Second - telling us a wireless-n network tells us very little, wireless-n has a theoretical upper limit of 300 mb/s, but will rarely deliver more than 80mb/s in practice, the problem however, is that we don't know what speed you're connecting at, conceivably it could be 54mbps or lower.

[skywalkr2]

My connection status shows 144.0 Mbps but does sometimes dip to 54.0.

[gunrunnerjohn]

Wireless communications is half-duplex, and the "connected" bit speeds are a whole lot different than the realized bit rates.

For 270mbit 802.11n connections, I've never seen more than about 7mbytes/sec transfers, I can easily exceed that on a 100mbit wired connection.  For a gigabit wired connection between my two Windows 7 boxes, I can pretty much move data at the hard disk speeds, I've clocked it at 80mbytes/sec for multi-gigabyte transfers.