Hi Guys,
I have just currently installed a managed switch on my home network. Since doing this I have created a bond (2x 1Gbps NICs) on my UNRAID server which now gives me 2Gbps of bandwidth. The bonding mode I have chosen is 802.3ad since my switch supports LACP.
On the switch side of things I have created a trunk, which includes 2 x 1Gbps ports being teamed together, which is also using the LACP protocol.
Once completing these two steps, I conducted a test where I copied two large ISO files to my UNRAID server at the same time. The two PCs from which I copied these two files from are utilising 1Gbps NIC cards. In theory, I should be able to copy these ISO files at the same time from each computer at around ~100MB/s. Although, once putting this into practice I was only getting around ~50MB/s on each computer, giving me a total of 1Gbps of bandwidth to the UNRAID server.
Is there anything I might be doing wrong? Or is there possibly another bottleneck on my server which is slowing it down to 1Gbps?
Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks