ratmice Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 all wireless clients on the network are 802.11b/g/n, which should default to the highest speed. The network can be limited if you have only a slower client connected, but I don't, ATM. Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Optimize your wireless network by enabling only the n standard. If you have no b or g devices you can improve performance by disabling both b and g. Quote Link to comment
bubbaQ Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Capture and post "ifconfig eth0" after playing the files for 10 minutes over wireless so you have stuttering. Quote Link to comment
ratmice Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Capture and post "ifconfig eth0" after playing the files for 10 minutes over wireless so you have stuttering. see reply #19 in this thread Quote Link to comment
ratmice Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Optimize your wireless network by enabling only the n standard. If you have no b or g devices you can improve performance by disabling both b and g. Done. No difference. Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Optimize your wireless network by enabling only the n standard. If you have no b or g devices you can improve performance by disabling both b and g. Done. No difference. This only makes a small improvement. Quote Link to comment
bubbaQ Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 see reply #19 in this thread This one? eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:90:0c:50:e4 inet addr:10.0.1.11 Bcast:10.0.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:926205 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:941402 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:91291911 (87.0 MiB) TX bytes:1053478158 (1004.6 MiB) Memory:fb5e0000-fb600000 Was captured after playing while it was stuttering? I though you said that was done with it connected wired and it worked as expected? Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 here it is after playing a while: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:90:0c:50:e4 inet addr:10.0.1.11 Bcast:10.0.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:926205 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:941402 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:91291911 (87.0 MiB) TX bytes:1053478158 (1004.6 MiB) Memory:fb5e0000-fb600000 BTW, it works fine wired, as expected.I just can't have the cables strung across the hallway Would powerline adaptors be fast enough to use for this? You can mount the cable on the ceiling using cable hooks or staples. If you try to keep it in the corners it might even look professional. It is a bit 19th century though. Powerline adapters advertise 200Mbps so it should work better than WIFI but it depends on your wiring and circuit layout. Quote Link to comment
ratmice Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Was captured after playing while it was stuttering? I though you said that was done with it connected wired and it worked as expected? Sorry, I was a bit unclear. The ifconfig output was indeed captured after playing over wireless (with stuttering) for a while. I then cobbled together some extra wiring to attach a computer to the router directly just to make sure it would work. The videos then played fine - that was the "as expected" part. Quote Link to comment
bubbaQ Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 That shows then, the there were no Ethernet errors on the unRAID side. Are you playing the same file from unRAID that you are playing from the other source? How is the AirDisk connected to the Airport Extreme? Quote Link to comment
ratmice Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 That shows then, the there were no Ethernet errors on the unRAID side. Are you playing the same file from unRAID that you are playing from the other source? How is the AirDisk connected to the Airport Extreme? What other source? I have no airdisk. There's only UnRAID serving video over the network and stuttering when attempting to play it on a wirelessly connected laptop (or other computer). If that same computer is wired to the network the video plays fine. Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 That shows then, the there were no Ethernet errors on the unRAID side. Are you playing the same file from unRAID that you are playing from the other source? How is the AirDisk connected to the Airport Extreme? What other source? I have no airdisk. There's only UnRAID serving video over the network and stuttering when attempting to play it on a wirelessly connected laptop (or other computer). If that same computer is wired to the network the video plays fine. This is not unusual. WIFI performance can vary greatly. The OP was comparing an Airdisk connected to Airport via USB using AFP to unRAID connected to Airport via Gig-E using SMB. And his problem is also not unusual. SMB to the Mac has lousy performance compared to AFP. EDIT: the OP could try using nfs shares or version 5.0b4 with AFP. Either should solve the problem. Quote Link to comment
timeforanewmac Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 jumping back in after reading todays posts...here's my ifconfig eth0 results: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6c:f0:49:73:6a:6b inet addr:10.0.1.15 Bcast:10.0.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:492722 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:479635 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:48889249 (46.6 MiB) TX bytes:514939773 (491.0 MiB) Interrupt:26 Base address:0xe000 and just to confirm, this is a wired setup, supposedly CAT6 Quote Link to comment
bubbaQ Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 So this is a mixture of 2 systems.... great. > This is why threads hijack are bad .... the rest of us can't keep the players straight. If you have a similar problem, wait on the resolution for the OP's problem, and then if the resolution for the OP's problem does not work for you, start a new thread. Quote Link to comment
ratmice Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 My misunderstanding of the OP, I'll shut up now. edit: I tries NFS shares and stuttering is gone. FYI. Maybe the OP can try that? Quote Link to comment
bubbaQ Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 timeforanewmac: Can you explain how everything is connected? What is connected to what? Also, you said "supposedly" Cat6.... can you check the cables and see if they are actually labeled as Cat6? Are the results you posted done while playing a file that stuttered? Have you tried NFS or AFP on unRAID rather than SMB? Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 UnRAID 4.7 try NFS. UnRAID 5.0b4 use AFP. Quote Link to comment
timeforanewmac Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 timeforanewmac: Can you explain how everything is connected? What is connected to what? Also, you said "supposedly" Cat6.... can you check the cables and see if they are actually labeled as Cat6? Are the results you posted done while playing a file that stuttered? Have you tried NFS or AFP on unRAID rather than SMB? yes, results are for trying to play a dvd rip the unRAID system is connected to a gigabit switch, which is connected to a WR54TG router (that acts as an extender for upstairs), and the lights show it's connected at gigabit speed my macbook and everything downstairs is connected by CAT6 cables to the airport extreme base station...and it's CAT6 that connects the downstairs airport extreme to the WR54TG upstairs yes, everything is CAT6, cables and jacks SMB is the only way to connect that works for me...NFS just sort of times out after failing to connect, and AFP flat out says that the unRAID box doesn't exist and that I should check my settings. I'm trying to connect on my macbook pro desktop by going to go>connect to server> and putting in SMB://10. etc. I tried using NFS://10. etc, and same for the AFP...is their some other way that i should be doing it? Thanks again for the help. Quote Link to comment
ratmice Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 for NFS I believe you have to specify each specific share in a slightly different manner . For instance, My array right now has 2 disk shares (disk1, disk2), user shares are not enabled, ATM. In the finder connection dialog (command-K), I put in "nfs://tower/mnt/disk2" and the finder window shows the usual connection info, after authentication dialog, of course, but lists "connected as: NFS". If you have user shares then the command would be "nfs://tower/mnt/user/usersharename". Obviously if you have renamed your server, substitute that name, or IP address for 'tower' in the previous commands. usersharename is the user share, for instance 'Movies", that you have set up. You need to have set up the NFS shares in the UnRAID shares settings with the following export setting: [iP](rw,insecure), where [iP] is the ip address you want to limit the share to, or '*' if you want blanket access. You also need to use Disk Utility (File Menu -> NFS Shares..) to set a mountpoint (at least I think that's what it does), typically /Volumes/mountpointname. The thread (below) has some other options vs. using Disk Utility to create mountpoints. See also this thread Hope that helps, it worked to remove my stuttering, although it was over a wireless connection. Forgive me if you knew all this, but it took me a bit of wrangling to get it working yesdterday. Quote Link to comment
timeforanewmac Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 UnRAID 4.7 try NFS. UnRAID 5.0b4 use AFP. Thanks to all for the info, I will try to mount the shares as NFS when I get back to it this weekend...but maybe I should just skip over NFS, upgrade to 5.0b4, and mount them as AFP? Quote Link to comment
prostuff1 Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 UnRAID 4.7 try NFS. UnRAID 5.0b4 use AFP. Thanks to all for the info, I will try to mount the shares as NFS when I get back to it this weekend...but maybe I should just skip over NFS, upgrade to 5.0b4, and mount them as AFP? I would not advice upgrading to 5.0b4. Go with 4.7 and use NFS for now. Quote Link to comment
timeforanewmac Posted February 27, 2011 Author Share Posted February 27, 2011 OK, I've tried setting up my unRAID as NFS, but it's not working. It keeps telling me that "The folder “DVD Collection” can’t be opened because you don’t have permission to see its contents." I've used Disk Utility to mount the share and that seems to be working OK...that is, when I select Verify it comes back and says that "the NFS server responded and appears to be functioning" in the unraid settings, I've selected *(rw,insecure) option. Also, I've rebooted everything just in case that clears up anything. I also tried using that 'NFS manager' application, but it doesn't work either, and I don't want to go down another side road....the Disk Utility NFS mount features should work. So, to summarize, I started this thread because the smb mounted shares stutter like crazy when trying to stream a DVD rip....so I'm trying to gain some speed by mounting the same share via NFS...but can't get it to mount properly. And I've already read just about every thread related to macs and nfs just in case I've missed something. Very frustrating. Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Your unRAID setting is correct. What is the path entered in Disk Utility? Quote Link to comment
timeforanewmac Posted February 27, 2011 Author Share Posted February 27, 2011 Your unRAID setting is correct. What is the path entered in Disk Utility? the url was: nfs://ip address/mnt/user/DVD Collection the mount location was: /Volumes/DVD Collection Quote Link to comment
dgaschk Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 That looks right. I have the following options set under Advanced Mount Parameters: nolocks, locallocks, intr, soft, wrsize=32768, nosuid Quote Link to comment
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