Hi all, I recently replaced my N-class router with an AC.
Overall, Web browsing does seem peppier. However my main metric was a bit disappointing -- perhaps my expectations (and understandings of my bottlenecks) were wrong, I hope you don't mind an explanation...
I have a PC wired by Ethernet to the router, and that PC has an external drive attached via UBS2.
I have a Mac that connects over wifi, and runs ChronoSync to backup the Mac to the USB drive on the PC. The Mac is connected to the PC via a smb: path.
My biggest file that gets backed up regularly is a ~1GB Lightroom catalog file.
Over my previous N router, ChronoSync would generally report roughly a 5-8MB/s transfer.
Over the new AC router, ChronoSync seems to report a 8-9.5MB/s transfer.
My understanding is USB2 is 480Mbit/s -- so 60MB/s.
Is there a way to understand what the bottleneck is? Is 8-9.5MB/s reasonable for backing up from a Mac over AC and smb to a USB2 drive on PC?
Thanks for any reality check!
Overall, Web browsing does seem peppier. However my main metric was a bit disappointing -- perhaps my expectations (and understandings of my bottlenecks) were wrong, I hope you don't mind an explanation...
I have a PC wired by Ethernet to the router, and that PC has an external drive attached via UBS2.
I have a Mac that connects over wifi, and runs ChronoSync to backup the Mac to the USB drive on the PC. The Mac is connected to the PC via a smb: path.
My biggest file that gets backed up regularly is a ~1GB Lightroom catalog file.
Over my previous N router, ChronoSync would generally report roughly a 5-8MB/s transfer.
Over the new AC router, ChronoSync seems to report a 8-9.5MB/s transfer.
My understanding is USB2 is 480Mbit/s -- so 60MB/s.
Is there a way to understand what the bottleneck is? Is 8-9.5MB/s reasonable for backing up from a Mac over AC and smb to a USB2 drive on PC?
Thanks for any reality check!