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#328415 - 04/01/2010 02:23 speed of netatalk vs smb?
gbeer
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Registered: 17/12/2000
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Loc: Manteca, California
Should I expect the transmission rate of a large file to be the same when it is sent to a samba shared folder vs. when it is sent to a folder shared via netatalk?

File sent to smb share goes at about 4MB/sec.
File sent via netatalk transfers at about 10MB/sec.

The 10MB/sec number seems reasonable because the MBP is connecting via wireless at 130mb/s.
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#328416 - 04/01/2010 02:32 Re: speed of netatalk vs smb? [Re: gbeer]
hybrid8
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My MBP wireless file copy speeds can be at or over 10MB/s to an SMB share when I am in clear line of site and relatively close (in the same room, 8 feet away) from the base station.

I can't speculate why you're seeing less than half the rate from SMB.
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#328423 - 04/01/2010 12:16 Re: speed of netatalk vs smb? [Re: hybrid8]
peter
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What's the server? SMB does impose more load on the server than Appletalk does, and if the server is a slightly feeble ARM-based NAS then it might be significant. When I worked at ANT, with all RiscOS clients and all Windows servers, we still used Appletalk -- a protocol native to neither client nor server -- for file sharing, as it was the fastest.

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#328439 - 04/01/2010 18:53 Re: speed of netatalk vs smb? [Re: peter]
gbeer
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Registered: 17/12/2000
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Originally Posted By: peter
What's the server? SMB does impose more load on the server than Appletalk does, and if the server is a slightly feeble ARM-based NAS then it might be significant. When I worked at ANT, with all RiscOS clients and all Windows servers, we still used Appletalk -- a protocol native to neither client nor server -- for file sharing, as it was the fastest.

Peter


Weak would describe this server, it's one of these running Ubuntu.


Edited by gbeer (04/01/2010 18:54)
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