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Re: My darn NAS...

From Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: My darn NAS...
Date 2021-01-13 09:46 +0000
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paul lee <nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net> wrote:
>  CG> I had a T430 that died (very unusual for Lenovo T series), I now have
>  CG> a T470 I bought used off eBay for rather less than I expected, lovely!
> 
> I love the ThinkPad hardware; and while the T430/T440 series have SOME of the 
> cool stuff from the old days, they are just beginning to be a little long in 
> the tooth for me. I'm not very hardware intensive, but... I will be looking at 
> some other ThinkPad models in the future. I might just bite the bullet and go 
> CURRENT T-series, but I haven't decided just yet.
> 
>  CG> My WiFi connection reports that it is 300Mb/s but the real speed is
>  CG> never anything like that.  Here are my results sending from T470
>  CG> laptop (WiFi connection, reports as 300Mb/s) to desktop:-
>  CG> 
>  CG> bone-debian-9.4-console-armhf-2018-07-08-1gb.img                  100%
>  CG> 850MB 16.2MB/s   00:52
>  CG> 
>  CG> So I get about half the 'expected' speed, also quite similar to your
>  CG> speeds I think.
> 
> Understood... however, you are getting a LITTLE better speeds than me; I wonder 
> what type of WiFi chip/card is in the T470 vs what is CURRENT??? Maybe it would 
> be worth it, for me, to upgrade the WiFi chip/card in my T430s to the best it 
> will take, OR whatever is current in 2021... 
> 
> Even if I won't get the 100mb/s that I had THOUGHT, I'd probably see a better 
> transfer rate anyway. Hmmmmm...
> 
Is it really that important or significant?  I.e. does it really
matter if a transfer takes 15 seconds rather than 10 seconds?

I run my (incremental, so rarely really huge) backups overnight via
anacron so whether they take 10 minutes or 30 minutes doesn't matter
at all.  As long as they complete before I wake up in the morning it's
fine.

-- 
Chris Green
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My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-10 17:46 +1300
  Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-11 04:10 +0000
    Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-12 00:28 +1300
      Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-12 10:26 +0000
      Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-12 10:57 +0000
        Re: My darn NAS... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-01-12 12:16 -0500
          Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-12 18:04 +0000
            Re: My darn NAS... Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-12 18:38 +0000
            Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 12:20 +0000
              Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-13 12:42 +0000
              Re: My darn NAS... Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-13 12:39 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 14:23 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-13 18:21 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 19:25 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2021-01-14 12:58 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... TimS <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2021-01-14 13:10 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 13:35 +0000
              Re: My darn NAS... Scott Alfter <scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us> - 2021-01-13 17:33 +0000
              Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-13 16:22 +1300
        Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-12 13:20 +1300
          Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-13 09:46 +0000
            Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 12:21 +0000
            Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-13 16:20 +1300
              Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 08:56 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 11:06 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... TimS <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2021-01-14 11:43 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-01-14 12:22 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 12:43 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 13:29 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-14 17:42 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 12:36 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 13:22 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... nospam.Richard.Falken@f1.n770.z6840.fidonet.org (Richard Falken) - 2021-01-14 11:45 +1300
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 18:05 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... TimS <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2021-01-14 18:29 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 18:35 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... TimS <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2021-01-15 11:25 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... nospam.Richard.Falken@f1.n770.z6810.fidonet.org (Richard Falken) - 2021-01-14 06:36 +1300
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 12:53 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 13:19 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 14:29 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 14:52 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-14 17:31 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-14 13:24 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 13:39 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 14:07 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-14 15:22 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Scott Alfter <scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us> - 2021-01-14 20:08 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-15 08:34 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 13:17 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... Pancho <Pancho.Dontmaileme@outlook.com> - 2021-01-16 12:30 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-18 17:57 +1300
                Re: My darn NAS... Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-19 13:37 +0000
                Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-21 18:06 +1300
  Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-11 10:15 +0000
    Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-11 15:16 +0000
      Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-11 15:31 +0000
        Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-11 18:05 +0000
    Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-12 00:31 +1300
      Re: My darn NAS... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-01-12 12:19 -0500
        Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 12:09 +0000
  Re: My darn NAS... druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-11 10:25 +0000
    Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-12 00:35 +1300
      Re: My darn NAS... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2021-01-12 12:25 -0500
        Re: My darn NAS... druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-12 19:32 +0000
  Re: My darn NAS... "NY" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2021-01-11 15:39 +0000

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