Only 11mbps max on freenas/nas4free homeserver

Hardware Hub Networking
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Okay so I've been Trying to configure 2 rather old computers from around 2007 to work as a nas storage box for my home. However, with either one of them, I get a max transfer speed of 11mb both incoming and out going from these two computers. Can anyone tell me as to why this is happening? I doubt its my 3 year old desktop's fault nor my brand new laptop. And I doubt it can be my asus router that costed me over 200$

When I use homegroup sharing through windows on any of my computers, I'll get a max speed of up to 64mb.

The specs of the better pc out of the two old ones has a 2 core Intel pentium D processor 935

2 GB ddr2 ram

1) 250gb hdd 7200rpm Formatted to UFS

1) 320gb hdd 5400rpm Also Formatted to UFS

No gpu because I run the servers headless and just a usb drive that I'm running nas4free off of.

Could it be the hardware being too outdated? I'm not sure if thats it because my other old computer that has even worse specs than this computer transfers at the same exact speeds. Could it be the fault of the software? I've tried everything from googling problems like this to exploring nas4free and freenas to see any additional options or wrong configurations.

Any help would be appreciated because I'm not all that educated in networking.

 

ALSO: Whenever I'm tranfering something, if I pause and start it up again, The transfer rate will sky rocket from 11mb to 64mb but only for a few seconds. During this short period, It flies through the transfer of my music collection. Then it will go back down to slow poke speeds. What the heck?

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Those computers might only have the 10/100 mbps ports on them. around 12Mb/s is the max speed for 1000mbps. Mbps = Megabits per second. Mbs = Megabyte per second. Basicalle divide 100 by 8 and that will give you the mbs

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Alright, Thanks for the reply. I'm going to look up the motherboard's model number and see if it gives me any information on its onboard network card so I can see the max speed it supports. I'll probably be buying a new network card anyway.

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*MB/s or MBps=MegaBytes per second

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12 MB/s is the max speed for 100mbps not 1000mbps. 

So yeah, it sounds like your older PC's dont have gigabit LAN ports. Just pick up a cheap gigabit PCIe card and you will be golden.

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Well thats weird. When I pause a transfer and start it again, the tranfer rate sky rockets from 11 mb to 60mb. Yet it only does this for a few seconds. As this happens, it flies through the transfer of my large music collection then goes back down to slow poke speeds. What the heck?