(poor?) LAN performance on the Q10 Pro

[airestonia]

iperf test btw Q10 Pro and windows PC.

Pardon to post in an old thread, but I thought it's better than creating a new one.
Could you please advice on how to replicate your results?

I am also not entirely happy with the data connection speeds I'm getting.
I have the Q10 Pro connected with a CAT6 cable (Wireless turned off) to the router (Gigabit connection on Virgin media Super hub 3).
In the box I have a 2TB WD drive connected via SATA.
Using samba either wired or on wireless connection from a PC, I'm getting a slow connection.
I've attached a screenshot that shows what I'm getting over wireless (AC connection) and in terms of wired it's about 200Mbit write and 100 read.

Please advice if I should try either getting a USB 3.0 Gigabit Lan adapter, possibly getting a faster HDD/SSD or upgrading my router and putting existing one into modem mode.

Many thanks to all in advance.
Eugene
 

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[Nice Monkey]

Using Samba throughput is limited as resources are spared for other front processes.
Using "Primitive FTPD " APP instead (or next to it)  much better transfer speeds can be reached.

[airestonia]

Using Samba throughput is limited as resources are spared for other front processes.
Using "Primitive FTPD " APP instead (or next to it)  much better transfer speeds can be reached.

Cheers and yes that would give faster transfer speeds, but what about being able to just browse data as if it's one of your local drives. It is a home network after all, or since it's android and samba implementation on it is too restrictive in terms of speed?

[Nice Monkey]

A LAN speed test does not say very much to me. The process on Q10 Pro to answer may be running at a very low priority.

More important is what real applications bring.

[Eriol]

Samba implementation is not just slow on Q10/5 Pro but bugged as well. I experienced file opening problems via smb shares. NFS is working pretty well in the other hand with relatively fast transfer rate a "bugless" so far and you can make it work with Kodi if you make direct mount points to the device fs.

[airestonia]

So what are we concluding?
That this has nothing to do with the actual lan controller, but has anyone actually tried an external usb3 lan adapter to confirm?
Would connecting the drive via usb3 rather than sata make things potentially faster for access via samba?
What I'm trying to ask is have we got any way of improving current state of things.

[Nice Monkey]

The HW is not the bottleneck in any sense.

Samba server included seems to be designed to really act as a NAS Server. For a NAS Server used for media streaming to various consumers including concurrent local playback it is important that all get their fair share to keep all streams fluent. This Samba implementation does this very well.  It is not good for bulk transfer.

Lucky enough FTP does a good job for that.  So for me the current setup is just fine with exception Samba Server reporting the wrong HDD size and free space. 

[airestonia]

Samba implementation is not just slow on Q10/5 Pro but bugged as well. I experienced file opening problems via smb shares. NFS is working pretty well in the other hand with relatively fast transfer rate a "bugless" so far and you can make it work with Kodi if you make direct mount points to the device fs.

Sorry, what do you mean by NFS, network file system?
And what approach works well for you?
Cheers

[aleister]

Samba FileTransfer is slower.
I get 25MB/S through my Gigabitlan and Samba

FTP reaches 68MB/S I use Filezilla on Windows and primitive ftp on Q10pro

[Eriol]

Sorry, what do you mean by NFS, network file system?
And what approach works well for you?
Cheers

Yes network file system. I share my content on the network with NFS as well and and mount the NFS shares to the device directly. You can use this method:
http://www.futeko.com/newforum/index.php?topic=813.0

After that you need to add Kodi libraries as local file not network share. This is the best performance solution I found so far and the most stable/bug free.