Slow upload speeds, so slow that I can't stream.

[rikdegraaff]

 

Hello all,

 

The latest week or two I have a big problem with streaming movies to my raspberry pi 2b.

If I want to watch a 1080p x264 AVC movie, it plays with no problems for about 7 minutes and after that it only stutters and buffers continuesly.

So I have installed the speedtest plugin on both sides.

My rpi 2b on lan gets a downstream of 91 megabits a sec, and my tower gets 7.3 megabits down and 2.6 megabits up.

 

They are both on a LAN cable and on a 100 megabit isp line.

In my house I always use 100mbit cables, so I am speechless.

 

What can I do to be possible to stream my movies again? I could stream a few months ago with the same setup..........

 

I hope someone can help me.

Kind regards, Rik

 

EDIT: I've already tried to play the movie and other 1080p movies on my 7th gen i5, GTX1050Ti, but they also stutter like hell.

Hereby also the diagnostics.

rik-tower-diagnostics-20200515-1053.zip

Edited May 15, 2020 by rikdegraaff
See edit

[Frank1940]

From your syslog.  What is going on here?

 

May 15 12:15:14 Rik-Tower rpcbind[11782]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(mountd)
May 15 12:15:14 Rik-Tower rpcbind[11799]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(nfs)
May 15 12:15:14 Rik-Tower rpcbind[11804]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(nlockmgr)
May 15 12:15:38 Rik-Tower rpcbind[12758]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(mountd)
May 15 12:15:38 Rik-Tower rpcbind[12759]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(nfs)
May 15 12:15:38 Rik-Tower rpcbind[12760]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(nlockmgr)
May 15 12:15:38 Rik-Tower rpc.mountd[3178]: refused mount request from 192.168.2.177 for /PC Games -- Software/Adobe Photoshop  CS3 + Crack/payloads/AdobePhotoshop10en_US/ (/): not exported
May 15 12:15:39 Rik-Tower rpc.mountd[3178]: refused mount request from 192.168.2.177 for /PC Games -- Software/Adobe Photoshop  CS3 + Crack/payloads (/): not exported
May 15 12:15:39 Rik-Tower rpc.mountd[3178]: refused mount request from 192.168.2.177 for /PC Games -- Software/Adobe Photoshop  CS3 + Crack (/): not exported
May 15 12:15:39 Rik-Tower rpc.mountd[3178]: refused mount request from 192.168.2.177 for /PC Games -- Software (/): not exported
May 15 12:15:39 Rik-Tower rpc.mountd[3178]: refused mount request from 192.168.2.177 for /PC Games -- Software/Adobe Photoshop  CS3 + Crack/payloads/AdobePhotoshop10en_US/ (/): not exported
May 15 12:16:03 Rik-Tower rpcbind[13654]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(mountd)
May 15 12:16:03 Rik-Tower rpcbind[13655]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(nfs)
May 15 12:16:03 Rik-Tower rpcbind[13656]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(nlockmgr)
May 15 12:47:28 Rik-Tower rpcbind[17665]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(mountd)
May 15 12:47:28 Rik-Tower rpcbind[17666]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(nfs)
May 15 12:47:28 Rik-Tower rpcbind[17667]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(nlockmgr)
May 15 12:47:52 Rik-Tower rpcbind[18581]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(mountd)
May 15 12:47:53 Rik-Tower rpcbind[18626]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(nfs)
May 15 12:47:53 Rik-Tower rpcbind[18627]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(nlockmgr)
May 15 12:47:53 Rik-Tower rpc.mountd[3178]: refused mount request from 192.168.2.177 for /PC Games -- Software/Adobe Photoshop  CS3 + Crack/payloads/AdobePhotoshop10en_US/ (/): not exported
May 15 12:47:53 Rik-Tower rpc.mountd[3178]: refused mount request from 192.168.2.177 for /PC Games -- Software/Adobe Photoshop  CS3 + Crack/payloads (/): not exported
May 15 12:47:53 Rik-Tower rpc.mountd[3178]: refused mount request from 192.168.2.177 for /PC Games -- Software/Adobe Photoshop  CS3 + Crack (/): not exported
May 15 12:47:53 Rik-Tower rpc.mountd[3178]: refused mount request from 192.168.2.177 for /PC Games -- Software (/): not exported
May 15 12:47:53 Rik-Tower rpc.mountd[3178]: refused mount request from 192.168.2.177 for /PC Games -- Software/Adobe Photoshop  CS3 + Crack/payloads/AdobePhotoshop10en_US/ (/): not exported
May 15 12:48:08 Rik-Tower emhttpd: cmd: /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/scripts/tail_log syslog
May 15 12:48:17 Rik-Tower rpcbind[19717]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(mountd)
May 15 12:48:18 Rik-Tower rpcbind[19733]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(nfs)
May 15 12:48:18 Rik-Tower rpcbind[19734]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(nlockmgr)
May 15 12:49:07 Rik-Tower rpcbind[21579]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(mountd)
May 15 12:49:07 Rik-Tower rpcbind[21580]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(nfs)
May 15 12:49:07 Rik-Tower rpcbind[21581]: connect from 192.168.2.177 to getport/addr(nlockmgr)

Plus you must be one of the last Unraid users still running their server at 100Mb/s.  While this speed is adequate for a single stream of 1080P content, it does not provide much additional capacity for any other traffic.  You should certainly be considering purchasing a 1Gb switch. 

[rikdegraaff]

Hi @Frank1940,

 

Those ip addresses belong to my gaming laptop that is online 24/7.

But I don't know what is going on with those syslog entries.

Can you explain me what I could do to prevent these entries?

 

I have also docker with rtorrent and sabnzbd running, but with schedules so that when I want to stream this shouldn't slow my server down.

Or could that be still so significantly slowing my server down?

 

Besides a 1Gb switch is really needed?

Because my server is in one room on a 5 ports netgear switch, and in the other side of the house my sleeping room has the same switch, I do need to buy 2 of them, not?

Edited May 15, 2020 by rikdegraaff

[Frank1940]

Your gaming laptop is requesting an NFS connection?  That would imply that it is not a Windows computer.  Plus, the connection is being denied because it is not being exported via NFS.  Why are you trying to make a connection via NFS if it is not being 'exported' from the server?

 

Uncompressed 1080P video streams can hit 50Mb/s.  Compressed streams are obviously less. 

 

I don't what all you are running across your network but the cost of a couple of Gb 5-port switches is about $40US.  Most of the cat 5 cables will support both fast ethernet (100Mb) and Gigabit ethernet.  Remember it is not only about traffic that your server is generating/using, it also the traffic that everything else on your network is requiring.  That link between the two rooms is a bottleneck.  What is the traffic between the two rooms? 

 

These are the two items that I spotted.  I am not sure if they are the problem or not but you need to have a look at them to determine that. 

 

[rikdegraaff]

1 hour ago, Frank1940 said:

Your gaming laptop is requesting an NFS connection?  That would imply that it is not a Windows computer.  Plus, the connection is being denied because it is not being exported via NFS.  Why are you trying to make a connection via NFS if it is not being 'exported' from the server?

 

Uncompressed 1080P video streams can hit 50Mb/s.  Compressed streams are obviously less. 

 

I don't what all you are running across your network but the cost of a couple of Gb 5-port switches is about $40US.  Most of the cat 5 cables will support both fast ethernet (100Mb) and Gigabit ethernet.  Remember it is not only about traffic that your server is generating/using, it also the traffic that everything else on your network is requiring.  That link between the two rooms is a bottleneck.  What is the traffic between the two rooms? 

 

These are the two items that I spotted.  I am not sure if they are the problem or not but you need to have a look at them to determine that. 

 

Hi Frank,

I don't know, I am here on WIn 10 on my laptop.

I really don't know how to quit a NFS connection within any os, so I really don't know how to close those connections.

 

I am going to get a look for some gigabit switches.

My Pi is with speedtest at my normal speeds, 100 megabit/sec down and 25 megabit/sec up.

When I do a speedtest from my tower, I'll get these speeds:

 

 

Before I buy anything, is there a zero cost way to solve these speed.

My PC next to the server, also on the same switch is getting also a upload speed of 0.4 Megabits/sec.

Maybe renew cables, because here in an other room on Wi-Fi Windows 10 gives me an upload of 29 Megabits/sec, as normal with our bandwidth from our ISP... See:

 

 

 

EDIT: Changed switch with same other 100 Mbps switch (König CMP-EHUB13) and the PC gives me now 28 Megabit/sec upload to speedtest. Server rebooted and getting:

 

Edited May 15, 2020 by rikdegraaff

[Frank1940]

3 hours ago, rikdegraaff said:

I really don't know how to quit a NFS connection within any os, so I really don't know how to close those connections.

What the question should be:  What (or Why) is the attempt being made to establish a connection?  You never really did answer what OS is being run on the computer with the 192.168.2.177 address.  If you don't don't why NFS is being used, you might want to be scanning for Malware.   (Example-- Setting a NFS Client on WIN10 is not trivial!)

 

Any time WI-FI is faster than a wired connection, you have a serious LAN issue!  I would start by rebooting everything on the LAN-- Modem, router, switches and retest.  Testing download speed from an ISP with a advertised 100Mb/s speed on 100Mb/s LAN requires some careful preparation.  You have to minimize the traffic on the affected LAN path to be sure that the result is the actual speed. 

[rikdegraaff]

18 hours ago, Frank1940 said:

What the question should be:  What (or Why) is the attempt being made to establish a connection?  You never really did answer what OS is being run on the computer with the 192.168.2.177 address.  If you don't don't why NFS is being used, you might want to be scanning for Malware.   (Example-- Setting a NFS Client on WIN10 is not trivial!)

 

Any time WI-FI is faster than a wired connection, you have a serious LAN issue!  I would start by rebooting everything on the LAN-- Modem, router, switches and retest.  Testing download speed from an ISP with a advertised 100Mb/s speed on 100Mb/s LAN requires some careful preparation.  You have to minimize the traffic on the affected LAN path to be sure that the result is the actual speed. 

Well the 192.168.2.177 is a win 10 laptop.

so how the h*ll do I get nfs connections on Windows?

I am really a newbie with that kind of connections.

Am I infected on 177 windows 10, or what security issues are going on with win 10 and nfs connections....?

 

I think I will buy two new switches and new lan cables. This because my pc on the same switch gets on 100 MBit now, but the server is still slow.

 

Plus I don't know how to make a speedtest fron unraid to a Raspberry Pi. To test what the throughput speed is...

[Frank1940]

28 minutes ago, rikdegraaff said:

so how the h*ll do I get nfs connections on Windows?

https://graspingtech.com/mount-nfs-share-windows-10/

[Frank1940]

28 minutes ago, rikdegraaff said:

Am I infected on 177 windows 10, or what security issues are going on with win 10 and nfs connections....?

You should probably be doing a extensive virus/malware scan on that computer.   You may get a clue by actually looking at those lines to see what directory/files it is attempting to connect to.  (Some of them are in the snippet of the syslog that I posted above.)  I am no expert when it comes to detecting and removing malware. 

[rikdegraaff]

Scanning on viruses now.

I saw that I installed windows optional feature "nfs server client", so just uninstalled.

 

Just a question from my side but I don't know how to make a speedtest fron unraid to a Raspberry Pi. To test what the throughput speed is...

 

Can someone please help me before buying all new cables and switches...

[Frank1940]

3 minutes ago, rikdegraaff said:

Just a question from my side but I don't know how to make a speedtest fron unraid to a Raspberry Pi. To test what the throughput speed is...

Read these threads:

 

    https://forums.unraid.net/topic/92528-solved-only-~-60-mbsec-write-speed-to-cache-drive/

 

and

    https://forums.unraid.net/topic/70304-new-to-unraid-need-help-with-ipref/