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It is strange to see speeds so low when dealing with LAN transfers. In my opinion it must be the speed of your computer, or your router. I had slow speeds as well but recently bought a new "Sandy Bridge" laptop. Even when I am on wireless I manage to get a steady 5 - 9 MB/sec. When I am wired it is nearly 12 - 15 MB/sec. It is also possible the your internet provide limits your download and upload speeds. From speedtest.net my download speed is 25.17 MB/sec and upload is 4.35 MB/sec. Go to speedtest.net and compare your results with mine.
Categories: Pogoplug Classic
Is there A how-to on this? if not we need one!
My question is, How do i get my Local LAN speeds up to something decent?
Right now im at low:200KB/Sec and MAX:3MB/Sec. Seems a little on the slow side. Any segestion on getting speeds up?
SET-UP:
1TB Hitachi External HD XL1000 --> PogoPlug Pro --> WIRED Supplied with pogoplug -->
Netgear WNR835M N Draft --> WIRED Cat5 --> Gatway 475M 2GHZ 2Gig ram Windows7 64bit
September 5, 2011 10:43 AM
September 5, 2011 11:09 AM
I do know my internet speed is slow. 3mbs. But my Lan speed is slow. My music folder takes 10-15 minutes to open when on Lan.
September 6, 2011 10:01 AM
Connect the hard drive to your laptop directly using USB and see if you can run some diagnostics on it like ATTO. just to absolve the Hard drive of any faults.
your particular make of hard drive doesn;t seem to get great reviews on Amazon.
even if you were connected via 100 mb networking, you should still be seeing write speeds of about 8-10 mb per second. try copying some large DVD files or video files. for some reason, you get less performance copying small files.
also, turn off the transcoding and creation thumbnails and indexing to see if it helps.
September 6, 2011 10:59 AM
When i connect my drive via USB to my PC i get around 15-25mbps.
I think it may be something with my network though. I had the Seagate Flew drive home. That also only got 1-2mbps over LAN.
What would be the best way to check my router speed and PC speed or troubleshoot this problem?
September 6, 2011 11:51 AM
while LAN transfers should not be affected by internet speed, can;t hurt to find out
go to
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest
and run a speedtest from your laptop on the same network as your pogoplug. that will give some idea of what your internet connnection upload and download speed is capable of.
also disable Optimize your videos for playback, Create media meta-data (such as music album art) and Generate photo and video thumbnails bu setting to Never for the drive.
are the wired ports on your router gig or 100mb?
September 6, 2011 12:11 PM
The spec on the router is - LAN : 4.0 x Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX - RJ-45
My PC - intel 82566MC Gigabit
September 6, 2011 12:41 PM
since your LAN is at 100mb networking, that is one bottleneck that will limit transfers to at best 8-12 mb per second.
your Pogoplug has a gig interface. you could consider upgrading your router to a gig capable unit which would give a max ceiling of about 22-45 mb per second to see if that helps. in my case, i just daisy chained a cheap switch to my router.
what are you transfering to/from the pogoplug? since we all know the pogoplug software is pretty weak, it could be getting bogged down creating thumbnails, album art and optimizing videos.
if you have alot of files, you might be better off transfering them directly to your external hd and then plugging it into the pogoplug after you are done.
September 6, 2011 2:47 PM
I just switched it all over to my 2wire uverse router.. Upload to pogoplug is now 1-2mbps and download was 12mbps when wired. I switched to WiFi on the PC and got same upload and 3mbps download
that's better then it was. Is upload to the plug on man always that slow?
September 6, 2011 3:05 PM
wifi is another potential bottleneck-max ceiling for G is usually about 3-4 megs per second(54 mbs). Bottom line is that it is slower than wired.
if you use N, you "might" get up to 30 meg per second(300mbps) but your laptop needs to have an N adapter as well. Not sure if the wifi on the pogoplug is N or G.
generally, uploading to the Pogoplug will be slower than downloading from it. your laptop is far more powerful and capable of writing files to it without lags or buffer overruns and dealing with overhead. the Pogoplug is a media streaming device-it designed to stream files OUT of it. Sadly, maybe the pogoplug people made a BIG miscalculation in the design....
September 6, 2011 4:21 PM
updated: September 6, 2011 4:29 PM
I think you guys are trying way to hard at this thing. It is not the pogoplug. The issue is with your laptop or your router/internet connection. This makes the only sense seeing that some people have slow transfer speeds and others have fast speeds. The one thing we all have in common is the pogoplug device. Like the other suggestions, try upgrading your router, switch to a cable internet, and the most expensive fix, get a new computer. Even with being hard wired it does not mean that all speeds will be the same.
Acer 3830TG-6431 laptop
Comcast cable internet with a Netgear WNR3500 router
Pogoplug Pink
This configuration gets me 15 MB/sec upload hardwired and 9 MB/sec upload on wi-fi
Just downloaded a 314 MB tv show (about 20 mins) just under 30 Sec hard wired.
September 6, 2011 8:58 PM
updated: September 6, 2011 9:01 PM
9MB/sec upload? Wow,
Are any of you guys using Zune? One of the reaons i need to get Transfer speed up is becuase i have 1 laptop and 2 Windows 7 Phones. Since i have windows phone 7 i use Zune to WiFi sync the phones.As i said before i have a 1TB HD connected to my pogoplug. It Shares my 3 big libraries. MUSIC - 33,0000Songs, - 11,000pictures and 100videos on the plug. The plug INDEX's the drive and make this possible to add to my libraries in windows 7. Now the pogoplug works great when i Browse the libraries in explorer but when i load zune up it runs SO SLOW!!! Files take forever and there is a 3min wait between playing songs. I believe this is due to the LESS than 1MBPS transfer rate. BUT now that i got it upto 15MBPS wee will see. if anyone else is doing this please chime in. Thank you everyone for your replys and help.
September 7, 2011 11:09 AM
are you transfering files down to the Zune over wifi directly or streaming? I've streamed from the jukebox app in the pogoplug software on my phone and it works fine for me.
it;s possible that the Zune is not playing well with your setup. that;s not surprising as i try downloading files to my Android Phone over wifi and it usually times out. for me, it might be because of the speed of my sd card. it;s only class 2 or 4-which translates to at best 2mb per sec or 4-another potential bottleneck.
as for the timeouts while playing, is your Pogoplug "processing media"? if so, the cpu is maxed out and you will get flaky behaviour until it;s done....
September 7, 2011 11:14 AM
Im only streaming the media unless its updating my phone with media then it copies the files. I removed all media and added about 30music files to the plug. Seems to work awsome with little files. im going to add more and more and watch to see if it gets flaky
September 11, 2011 9:32 PM
I'm in the same boat. On my Dell XPS M1530 laptop connecting to my FiOS Wifi, I get 19Mbps download speed / 14Mbps upload. However, when I connect and external USB drive and attempt to upload to a drive connected to the Pogoplug Pro, I'm only getting 1MB/sec upload speed (the Pogo drive is connected by ethernet to the router).
When I connect those two drives to the laptop via USB, I get 19MB/sec transfer speeds between the two, so obviously something in the network / Pogoplug Pro chain is the bottleneck, right? I mean, the broadband speed test is proving I can at least hit 1.75MB/sec from the laptop through wifi, right? And shouldn't I be able to do better on the local network?
September 12, 2011 3:02 PM
are you using the my.pogoplug.com website to upload files or the Pogoplug Drive client(Windows Explorer).
September 12, 2011 4:25 PM
I installed the premium software and was using drag/drop to the network drive it mapped in Windows Explorer while logged onto the same local network as the Pogoplug device. I also tried using the my.pogoplug.com Website and the speed was about the same.
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