Slow To Copy Files From NAS

I recently has an issue where trying to copy video files between my main PC and NAS drive was extremely slow, around 300k/sec. I'm using a Netgear N wireless router and a generic N wireless network USB stick on the PC so would expect around 6 tp 7 meg/sec. My setup is that the NAS is cabled directly to the modem router so all devices in the house can access it equally as fast and the slowest part bottleneck should be the wireless.

After playing with all the wireless settings I could think of and even buying a new wireless USB stick the problem still persisted. Finally I replaced the LAN cable joining the NAS and the router and what do you know, suddendly all the devices in the house can transfer files at the expected speed. It turned out to be a faulty LAN cable.

Then I remembered the old OSI table and how you should always trouble shoot from the lowest level first and work your way up. IE check power, cables and hardware first, then play with software. Hopefully this may help someone if they are having similar issues.