seagate Central 3TB slow Transfer Speed

I have a seagate central 3TB NAS which is returning very slow file transfer speeds of just 4mbps.

My router is a Buffalo Airstation WHR-G300N and is showing 300mbps connection speed. It is in N (2.4GHz) mode only with 40MHz channel width.

My Laptops wireless card is limiting my connection speed to 65mbps but I would expect to be able to achieve a transfer speed higher than 4Mbps.

Is there anything else I can check/Change? the review sites I've seen claim to have achieved more than 20mbps write speed, I'd be happy with that!

xyy81t

Posted 2015-07-28T19:33:34.257

Reputation: 11

1I'd strongly suggest that you try connecting via an Ethernet cable. Wireless networks have quite a few unknowns - you may "see" 300Mbps as a setting, but you never know what the interference looks like - overlapping neighbor's access points, "noisy" RFI sources. Have you looked at the WiFi spectrum using MetaGeek's INSSider (the free version)? It will help you check some of the details of the WiFi network and its performance. – Milen – 2015-07-28T19:49:51.537

hmmm INSSider shows that my router is offering b,g,n, data rates even though in my DD-WRT settings screen its set to N only – xyy81t – 2015-07-28T20:14:45.070

Does INSSider show any overlapping networks from other neighboring access points? What about signal-to-noise ratio (S/N or SNR) - should be in dB. – Milen – 2015-07-29T11:26:41.897

There was so I changed to channel 11 which was clean but no change in transfer speed. Will check snr when home later, thanks – xyy81t – 2015-07-30T11:56:13.997

Sorry for the stupid question, but how do you measure the transfer speed? – Milen – 2015-07-30T16:41:21.403

I copy a file and windows copy box tells me the speed – xyy81t – 2015-07-31T17:36:18.267

I Can't find SNR or SN anywhere.but it says my signal is -49dbm. – xyy81t – 2015-08-01T08:18:20.800

Well Now i'm confused. Win 10 Task manager says i'm recieving data at 30+Mbps but the copy window still only says 4. i wasn't downloading anything else at this time so what is the other 26Mbps? – xyy81t – 2015-08-01T09:04:10.607

http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr70/micahwilkinson/WIfi%20performance_zpsreg4w46s.jpg – xyy81t – 2015-08-01T09:08:31.737

What does 65/8 mean? – Layke – 2015-11-30T14:29:50.967

Merely bits to bytes conversion – Kartik Moudgil – 2015-11-30T14:39:25.667

Ah okay. I got it :) I see from the original question, he referred to 65Mbit. – Layke – 2015-11-30T15:44:45.983

Yeah, I learnt the hard way about these manufacturer quoted speeds vs what you actually get :( – Kartik Moudgil – 2015-11-30T15:46:22.033

seagate Central 3TB slow Transfer Speed

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