What transfer rate to expect with USB-HDD on WL500gP

[raas]

To my post #2 below I can add the following results:

FTP transmission rate
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Transmission environment: wired LAN-to-LAN
FTP Server: proftpd 1.3.1-4
FTP Server type: FTP (no encryption)
FTP Client: Inbuilt in Windows XP (command prompt)
Source File Placement: 8GB USB Pen Drive

ftp> get xyz.bin
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for xyz.bin (437923584 bytes)
226 Transfer complete
ftp: 439520841 bytes received in 265,38Seconds 1656,23Kbytes/sec.

hi,
have you tried vsftpd ?
in my experience vsftpd is twice as fast as proftpd.

[tex]

@raas
Thanks for suggestions. i tried to install samba2 as il wengi tutorial disabling the samba from firmware, but when i've to configure it with web-interface
http://IP.ADRESS.OF.ASUS:901
i cant find that page.. can you please help me?

[raas]

@tex,

Hi,
have you saved the configuration after installing samba?

flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable && reboot

and, did you litteraly follow the link: http://IP.ADRESS.OF.ASUS:901 ??
(like haven't you changed ip.adress.of.asus to your actual ip of the asus, if you haven't changed this it would be http://192.168.1.1:901 )

[tex]

@tex,

Hi,
have you saved the configuration after installing samba?

flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable && reboot

and, did you litteraly follow the link: http://IP.ADRESS.OF.ASUS:901 ??
(like haven't you changed ip.adress.of.asus to your actual ip of the asus, if you haven't changed this it would be http://192.168.1.1:901 )

i followed the tutorial litterally...i got only some difficoulty in coping/pasting the content of S10xinetd with vi. I can acces the router at the address http://192.168.1.1/ but when i try to go to http://192.168.1.1:901 i get IE error page not found...
i saved and reboot and samba is working: i can find the tmp folder in network resources but i can't write on it... tks for your attention

[Tamadite]

@raas
You are right, the idea of using FTP to measure transmission speed might not be the best. I have repeted the test as follows:

dd transfer rate (Linux)
============

dd if=/dev/extu/abc.bin of=/abc.bin
646680+1 records in
646680+1 records out
331100448 bytes (331 MB) copied, 171.544 seconds, 1.9 MB/s

ftp transfer rate (Linux)
============

ftp> get abc.bin
local: abc.bin remote: abc.bin
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for abc.bin (331100448 bytes)
226 Transfer complete
331100448 bytes received in 174.78 secs (1850.0 kB/s)

It seems FTP has a noticeable but marginal impact on the performance of the transmission.
When comparing this example with example in post #15, it seems MS-Windows XP has an impact on the performance as well.

Do you get a significant better performance when using vsftpd compared to proftpd? I wonder if the USB performance on the unit is lower than the performance of the proftpd FTP server.

NOTE: this test has been performed as in post #15: abc.bin source file is placed on a 8GB pen drive connected to my WL-500gP. The copy has been performed on a wired LAN-to-LAN environment.

[raas]

Do you get a significant better performance when using vsftpd compared to proftpd? I wonder if the USB performance on the unit is lower than the performance of the proftpd FTP server.

In my experience yes, when I was running vsftpd I could almost get 4 Mbyte/sec transferate, (internal network)

But as I use ftp only for external (=internet) connections and proftpd has more functionality I decided to use proftpd, because even though it's slower than vsftpd it's still a lot faster than my internet-upload.

For file access in my internal network I just use samba which gives me a contant 3.2-3.5 Mbyte/sec which is acceptible for me

[tex]

can someone tell me how to unistall samba2? i cannot configure it so i want to go back to samba installed in oleg firmware.. thanks

[raas]

can someone tell me how to unistall samba2? i cannot configure it so i want to go back to samba installed in oleg firmware.. thanks

ipkg remove samba2

[tex]

@raas
Thanks very much...