I've been ripping and transferring movies all day today, and I've started to notice that my transfer speeds slow down a lot.  The speeds start at 38 mbps, and they drops to 14.5 mbps.  I was looking at my system log, and I noticed a lot of "minor errors."

 

I was hoping if someone can enlighten me as to why my transfer speeds are dropping so much.  I am transferring from my W7 PC, which is connected to a Trendnet 8 port giga switch, and my tower is connected to the same switch as well.

 

Also should I be concern about the "minor issues"?  And how can I correct them.  Thank you.

syslog-2012-03-29.txt

i admit, im not the best at reading these, but it seems like your network is dropping out and the UnRaid server is needing to aquire a new IP Address/lease.

 

are you referring too

 

Mar 29 08:01:20 Tower dhcpcd[1335]: sending DHCP_REQUEST for 172.16.0.3 to 172.16.0.1 
Mar 29 08:01:20 Tower dhcpcd[1335]: dhcpIPaddrLeaseTime=86400 in DHCP server response. 
Mar 29 08:01:20 Tower dhcpcd[1335]: dhcpT1value is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 43200 sec 
Mar 29 08:01:20 Tower dhcpcd[1335]: dhcpT2value is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 75600 sec 
Mar 29 08:01:20 Tower dhcpcd[1335]: DHCP_ACK received from  (172.16.0.1) 

 

or is it something else that you are seeing?

Yeah, I dont know what that means either.  I reserved the ip 172.16.0.3 for the unraid server via my netgear wndr3700.  I havent changed anything under the unraid config network.  I only have DHCP=YES.

maybe try and set it to a static address and manually put in the ip address, subnet mask, etc, etc and see if it keeps going.

 

To me, that looks like either your network (or network card) is dropping out and regarding a DHCP lease or the lease time it set small and it has to ask for a new lease.

If i read it correctly,

dhcpIPaddrLeaseTime=86400 in DHCP server response.

 

means that every 24 hours any computer on your network needs to ask for a new ip lease from the DHCP server.

 

I would manually set it on the server (leave the reservation on the DHCP server) and see if that helps.

Changed my network config. on my server to:

# Generated network settings

USE_DHCP=no

IPADDR=172.16.0.X

NETMASK=255.255.255.0

GATEWAY=172.16.0.X

MTU=

 

I transferred a few files, and it stayed at 32 mbps transfer speed for a while until, I started to use the internet on the same computer for some other stuff (scrapping movie metadata), and it slowed down to 28.5 mbps, and stayed there until the file finished transferring.