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So I have a Humax Foxsat Freesat box that I've installed Raydon's custom firmware on. When it gets a bit full, I drag and drop stuff in Windows Explorer from the Humax to the NAS (Netgear ReadyNAS Duo v1).
This works, but slowly. 4MB/s transfer speed.
Transferring stuff from the laptop to the NAS (wired), it maxes out around 12MB/s. Think I remember looking in to this, installing a switch for Gigabit network speeds thinking that'd solve it but then finding out that my laptop doesn't handle Gigabit network (is only 10/100 rather than 10/100/1000?)
So, is there a way of copying stuff from the Humax PVR to the NAS quicker? Would FTP do it? If so, where do I start?
Or am I fighting a losing battle and actually need new kit?
If you set up an FTP server on your Humax box ( it is probably already there with Raydon's firmware ) then you can ( at least on a QNAP NAS ) create a file transfer job to log into the Humax box and download everything on a regular basis. There is an option to delete on the target device ( NAS ) files that are no longer on the source ( HUMAX ) make sure that this is [b][u]not[/u][/b] selected.
For other NAS providers, the protocol you are looking for is RTRR ( Real Time Remote Replication ).
12MB/s is about the max transfer speed you will see on a 10/100 network so you laptop transfer wont get any faster unless everything is gigabit which youve confirmed your laptop isnt.
if the humax also has 10/100 then also not alot you can do. assume the netgear is gigabit though?
mixing 10/100 and gigabit your network will run at the slowest speed.
FTP wont really help.
but 4MB/s is fairly slow even for 10/100 so maybe the humax is just limited in someway through poor design.
Dobo the Humax will not have a high transfer speed - should be around 7 MB/s, but the 4 will be the speed of the transfer humax -> router -> laptop -> router -> NAS.
ah right, i dont have a humax, so setting up like youve said is then skipping the laptop out and might give the 7MB/s transfer speed?
It should do.
I am assuming that you have a wired connection to the Humax - I'm just doing a test Humax -> laptop with a wifi dongle in the Humax and it is only reaching a speed of 5.1 Mbytes/s
Thanks for the advice. So cranberry, is the maximum transfer speed from the Humax around 7 MB/s in any situation?
Or would using FTP make it substantially faster?
I notice there's the option on the NAS to set up a backup job with the source option as 'FTP site' so expect this would be what I'd need to look in to. Although it looks as though it would back up the entire lot.
Sounds like PVRs are the weak link?
I don't know what transfer speeds I'd achieve laptop > NAS with a Gigabit network, but it doesn't sound as though I'd see a massive improvement in speeds from Humax > NAS?
Unless the latest PVR models are much better?
So cranberry, is the maximum transfer speed from the Humax around 7 MB/s in any situation?Or would using FTP make it substantially faster?
From memory FTP is *marginally* faster, but 7-8 MBytes/s is the max you will get.
I notice there's the option on the NAS to set up a backup job with the source option as 'FTP site' so expect this would be what I'd need to look in to. Although it looks as though it would back up the entire lot.
Yes and it will copy everything, the advantage being that it'll be a bit faster and automatically start according to schedule. You will then need to delete what you don't need.
Ok, well it's good to hear confirmation that I'm not missing out on huge increases in speeds. Thanks for your replies!
we've got a foxsat - not tried transferring files on the network, but even just deleting from the hard drive is a fairly slow process
Scaredypants - have you installed Raydon's firmware ?
With it you can connect to it as a network share and delete files, or use a nice web interface to do it ( along with lots of other things ).
no, haven't. I read on here a while back that the firmware exists but, frankly, I can't be arsed to try it (as yet)