Trying to optimize and screwed up mount?

[myballsitch]

Can someone tell me the steps to completely remove a drive and it's mount history? Or what else might be the problem here.

I'm screwing around learning my pogoplug and linux, trying to optimize and get the 20Mb claimed by others, so far I only get 10. I fdisked my ntfs drive and changed it to ext3 for speed, mounted it manually, changed the drive label, and tried to fix it i webmin, now that drive via it's new samba share won't let anyone write to it. I can cp files in a terminal as root onto the drive, but over the samba share no go. It says you need permission on the windows side but in smb.conf the correct permissions are assigned.

I think the issue may be the way I manually mounted it, but even though I umount it still comes back.

Webmin shows this:
/media/usb2 FUSEBLK Partition with ID D60E91FD0E91D6B9 95 % Yes No
/media/hdd3 Linux Native Filesystem (ext3) Partition with ID 35484bd2-68a4-4e2f-9c4d-a234202a63df 5% Yes No


Hdd3 is the drive I have issue with, if I type mount in terminal it shows this for hdd3:

/dev/sdc1 on /media/hdd3 type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,nodelalloc,data=ordered)

The directions I used to fdisk and mount were these, maybe a setting is missing:

Start fdisk on the USB drive:
/sbin/fdisk /dev/sda
At the fdisk prompt, delete old partitions and create a new one:
Type o. This will clear out any partitions on the drive.
Type p to list partitions. There should be no partitions left.
Now type n, then p for primary, 1 for the first partition on the drive, and then press ENTER, accepting default values.
Exit by typing w.
Now create the ext3 filesystem:
wget http://archlinuxarm.org/os/pogoplug/mke2fs
chmod 755 mke2fs
./mke2fs -j /dev/sda1
mkdir usb
mount /dev/sda1 usb

My pogoplug is set up via these directions:
http://obihoernchen.net/wordpress/770/p ... rch_linux/






If more info is needed let me know.

[myballsitch]

Ok I have reinstalled completely (a few times) to try to fix my 10MB max up and down speeds, so forget the above, I'm past that. I'm back to a fully working setup but the issue is still slow transfer speeds. Nothing everyone else does speeds up my config. I am starting to suspect my fios router as the bottleneck. I've got gigabit on everything but the router is 10/100, and according to what I read this router was shitty even when it wasn't obsolete. westell a90...

They don't offer anything better, its frontier fios and they suck to put it mildly. They still don't have any gigabit or N routers and I'm told I have to use theirs for whatever reason.

Should any 10/100 router limit me to only 10MB/s file transfers, or should I suspect win7 which also has a lot of complaints on network speed and no solution I can find.

I'm really getting frustrated.

How can I benchmark read and write speeds on the pogo itself, to see what it can do without the network involved?
(Keep in mind I dont know unix, so just saying install and run x won't get me very far without knowing the language to install x)

[grayman4hire]

To get 20MB transfer rate you need to be on a gigabit network. This doesn't mean that your router needs to have Gigabit, you could use a gigabit switch (your computer and the pogoplug plugged into gigabit switch, also assumes your computer also has gigabit ethernet adapter).

10 MegaBytes = 80 MegaBits (add a little overhead and your at the max of your 100 MegaBit network)

[myballsitch]

Thanks. I didn't realize bits vs bytes, I expected maybe half of 100Mbytes was the available bandwidth, now it makes sense. I'll go look for another slickdeal.

I have gigabit on everything but hdhomerun and slingbox, my phone and laptop have wireless N which I cant take advantage of either.

Can I disable wifi on the telco router and use a new N gigabit router rather than switch for the same function plus faster wifi?
I'm guessing yes except I don't know the potential gotcha's or details.

If so reccomendations?

[moonman]

Does your old router have a bilt in modem as well. If so you will have to use it as a modem only and put it in a bridged mode, if it supports it, or put your new router in DMZ (demilitarized zone). if you don't, you will be behind double NAT (network address translation) which is not good. Or get a just a modem from your ISP.

Another option is to use your new router as a simple AP (access point) and use your old router as a router. Just disable DHCP and WiFi in the new one and use one of the LAN (NOT WAN or Internet) ports to connect new to the old.

If it's just a router and your modem is separate then just swap them. Keep in mind WiFi 300Mbit/s will give you max 13-15 Mbyte/s - not much better than what you have now. (300Mbit/s is half duplex so /2 = 150Mbit = 150/8 bit in a byte = ~18 - overhead) and that is only if you have perfect conditions for 300Mbit/s connection.

[myballsitch]

Cool thanks.

I won't expect too much from the wireless speed then.

Does my router have a modem in it? No idea... Like I said it has coax out, connects to a "tv like" cable, so something's definitely different than a normal one. I telnetted into it and it has bridge mode, so I should be good to go.

I tested my internet speed via speedtest.net and get only 25Mbits/s up and 19Mbits/s down, not sure how good that is for FIOS...

The 10Mbyte/s router isn't ever limiting my internet speed is it? If It can do 150Mbits/s I'm not getting anywhere near it's bandwith limit so it shouldn't make any difference on my internet speed if I rented a new one and got rid or this or not right?