INSIDE your local network, you should be seeing speeds that top out according to your slowest bottleneck.

it is conceivable that if everything is perfect, you will attain up to about 15-45 megabytes per second which is about the most you will get with gig networking and fast hard drives on BOTH ends of the conversation. keep in mind the Pogoplug hardware is not very powerful. it;s specs are that of a very low end computer and 128-256 mb of ram isn;t going to buffer alot of data no matter how you slice it.

In my setup, I get about 15-23 megabytes per second when reading from my USB 7200 rpm drive to a fast powerful client machine. writing to it is a little slower.

Now if you are only connected via 100 mb networking, I would not expect speeds to exceed 8-10 megabytes per second as the networking is the bottleneck. Wireless connected, you will probably top out at 3-5 megabyte per second. 54 mbps is effectively 5.4 megabytes per second and that is the top speed, not the average.

Seems like when they designed this solution, they expected you to populate the drives attached to other machines instead of directly attached to the pogoplug. Streaming doesn;t require alot of bandwidth(500k-1mb) which is why it works reasonably well for many of us even over a 3g link to our cell phones.

you should be getting better than 400k-1 mb speeds though. is your client and pogoplug wired or wireless? if you plugged the JBOD directly into a computer what speeds to you get? I assume its USB 2.0.

Yeah if the wireless is only capable of top end 54mb/s which bit to byte conversion simple 8 bits to a byte gets you 6.75MB/s.

Which most Internet speeds is claiming around an average 6MB/s

I know that att uverse claims top end 24MB/s speeds. So at that point wireless would be to slow but you gotta think when did you ever actualy get the top end of you internet. 6MB/s is more like 4.5MB/s actually reached for me and what I have seen.

It's always "fun" to hear people try to clear the air when it comes to transfer speeds megabytes to megabits. Man why all the confussion. Why can't things be easier. Sorry had to rant a little and say what everyone is thinking. Haha.

But seriously. Wireless can handle 54megabits per second standard. Which x8 gets you 6.75megabytes per second. Hard drives anywhich way are way faster. Internet in gereral top out around 6megabytes per sec on average. USB 2.0 claims to handle 60megabytes per sec.

I know when transferring from one computer to another trough wifi. I can almost top out the the wifi at 100% but on average but usually around 70% which is about 4.7megabytes per sec

the numbers they advertise is all marketing fluff.....

i speedtested a friends internet connection(time warner roadrunner) and he got 8 mbs down and .5 mbs upload. no wonder his outbound streaming is a little flaky.

I don;t disagree-reason why we get crappy performance is partially due to low upload speeds. it could be fixed with better software-client side and pogoplug side but don;t know if that is likely considering there hasn;t been much updates on the server end in a while. I think the pogoplugs uses ffmpeg program/package to stream video and maybe there is updates that could make it perform better.

another thing people need to keep in mind, the Pogoplug is a media sharing device, not a NAS and especially not a fileserver. well maybe a very low power server. I used to run old Novell Servers on 386 and 486 computers and 8-16 mb of RAM. However, back then files weren;t nearly as large as they are now.

While others have co-opted it for heavier usage, sadly, it;s not really designed for it. it can do some amazing things(like run a webserver)on a miniscule amount of power especially if you mod it but heavy duty fileserving is not one of them.

in order to get my setup working a little better, I have been looking at USB/eSATA RAID enclosures connected to the hidden SATA port.

i access the drive via the pogodrive client and for copy operations, i seem to get true network speeds atleast to the USB connected 7200 rpm SATA drive. a little slower access to some attached flash drives for some reason. i would have thought the flash drives would work better but they don;t. unfortunately, maybe there is some incompatibility with your enclosure and the pogoplug that might explain the speed issue.

streaming on the other hand is a little trickier to measure. the nature of streaming is to use the ffmpeg engine to cut up the network traffic into smaller chunks that won;t saturate your bandwidth or capacity of your client and give you the dreaded "buffering" message. so in reality, while streaming you don;t want to see alot of traffic going across all at once but just enough for the picture to play smoothly in your video client. how does the videos look when streaming them? for some reason, the videos seem to look really good streamed from the web ui in Chrome via HTML5. tried streaming on other browsers that used flash and they stuttered and timed out.

about all I can suggest is for you to try different drives and maybe different clients. also, transcoding down the videos into MP4 format at a resolution your device can handle will help. I started out with unconverted AVI files and found a player that worked with my Android phone but after struggling with them, I noticed that it works "better" overall with MP4 files.

goodluck!