As of the last two updates, I’ve noticed that the SMB services as a server on my Vero 4K+ have been slowed to the point of being useless. I have a local 6TB drive attached to the Vero so that it doesn’t have to constantly occupy the network with traffic, but I occasionally have to copy files to this drive. This summer it worked fine and the Vero (playing or not) was a moderately snappy server. With the last two updates it seems the data transfer rate has dropped to the tens of K per second. Copying a season of a TV show is glacial - to the point that it’s now significantly faster to shut down, remove the drive and use a Raspberry Pie to update the drive.
Did something happen? Are there suggested settings to help with this? I see several discussions about optimizing settings to get Kodi to work well as a client. The Vero is otherwise working swell and is quite an excellent player.
How is the Vero connected to your Network and have you tested throughput with iperf3?
The Vero is on Wifi (all that’s available to its location) and i have not tried iperf3. I’m basing the loss of performance based on what it was previously. It was never as snappy a server as the Pie it replaced, but it was more than good enough AND it is a much better video player.
When I posted my question, the web page popped up a suggestion for another thread on read performance - which included a suggestion to make sure that you don’t have both WiFi and wired active at the same time. That makes sense and i checked. The wired was active. I disabled that and ran a quick test with a small video file and it might be better. I will try iperf3 and see what it says.
Thanks!
iperf3 says it’s about 7mbits/sec talking to my Mac. I’m looking for a suitable large video file to try transferring. Hopefully it was just as simple as disabling the unused wired connection.
That is very low, you should check wifi, maybe change Channels
There were no other channels available, but the router did have a second, unused 5GHz radio. I enabled that and moved the Vero over to it. It’s now reporting 200Mbits which is still kind of low for a 5GHz radio. I did a channel survey and there’s nothing remotely near it so that may be the best I can manage. The transfer speeds are in the 20 MB/sec range which makes sense. For fun and turned the wired connection back on and the rates dropped by half.
Which would be a 100 MBit wired connection then.
So I guess topic solved?
There was no wire, but yes - I’m satisfied. It seems that besides the unused wired connection causing issues, the wifi situation here (a lot of routers in one area) isn’t spectacular. I guess the update somehow enabled the wired connection?
Thank you for your help and I’m calling this closed.
We will always favour an Ethernet connection over WiFi if available and when booting, we won’t activate both technologies unless Ethernet wasn’t available for some time, i.e. Ethernet plugged in after device has been on and connected to WiFi for some time
That makes perfect sense - wired connections are just better. This machine is in a room with no wired connections available unless I drill a hole in the floor and bring one up. Except for adding movies to the drive (USB and connected to the Vero) there won’t be much file access through the network. Well, except for updates I suppose.