Yep that 100 Mbps in your screen shot jumped right out at me too. Is it possible that your computer only has a 100 Mbit Network adapter?
Built in windows file sharing, simplest most reliable option.
Also free and no need to install anything at all.
That same screenshot shows he has a Realtek GBE Family adapter which is gigabit. Why it’s only negotiating a 100mb connection is the question. Prolly gonna be the switch or the cable.
Ah I didn’t see that. That’s really strange…
If a CAT6 cable loses a pair or two it will only do 100M (1000M requires all 4 pairs).
I think this is the router I have.
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I don’t think I really have an option to change it though. The LTE company sends them to you with a preinstalled card that is keyed to the router.
I’m not sure if this helps, just now I plugged in a WB backup drive uisng the USB 3.0 and my transfer rate is hovering between 90-157 M*B*/s. A 53 Gig file takes about 7 minutes to transfer. From what I understand the USB 3.0 is always going to be faster, but it still makes it seem to me like something is not right with the LAN.
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I took that same WB drive into the house and plugged it into the PC in there with the USB 3.0 and the transfer rate over the LAN network had the same speed from there as it did from the shop about 11.1 M*B*/s. To me this means at least that the cable from the shop pc to the router is not damaged. It could still mean that the one from the NAS to the router is the culprit, or that all the cables I got are not really what they say.
I’m not seeing anything that mentions the speed of those ports unfortunately. I did some searching and it seems they don’t advertise the speed.
If the computer is connected directly to that device it is either the ports or the cable (look for damage, but probably not). You can try another cable or check your other devices. If everything wired is connected at 100M, it is probably the router. A good test would be to use a shorter cable with your laptop (since it is portable) and see if it connects at 100M.
Assuming the router is to blame, you could get a small gigabit switch and connect it to the router with a short cable, then connect your wired devices to to the switch. This should get you 1000M speeds assuming your cables are good.
Something like this should work: https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-8-Port-Gigabit-Ethernet-Unmanaged/dp/B07PFYM5MZ/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=gb+switch&qid=1615480230&sr=8-3
That one is 8 ports, but the 5 should work if you don’t need that many.
If you are shopping around, TP-Link and Netgear have decent switches for the money. I like ones that are all metal. Make sure it is gigabit, and has 1 port for each device (including the router) that you want to connect.
There shouldn’t be any setup beyond plugging it all in, so it would be easy too.
You guys did it again!!! 
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Fortunatly I had my old router still here. I took the cat5e cable that came with the NAS, plugged my old router into the back of the house PC and the network adapter changed to 1.0 Gbps! I drug my LTE router in the living room and plugged it directly into the pc using the short Cat5e and it dropped to 100 Mbps. Some variation on those tests show my long cables under the house are good (Hallelujah for that).
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I plugged in all the long cables from under the house to the old router, and then plugged the LTE router into the old one. Now I get 50-100 MB/s.
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I also appreciate you guys mentioning that discrepancy between how data on the drives is measured vs how the LAN connection speed is measured. I will do my very best to keep my MB/s and Mb/s in the right place
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SUPER THANKS AGAIN to every one who has been helping me with this. I was 
sick over spending the grotesque amount of money this system cost only to have a slower one than what I started with. Everything seems to be running quickly at the moment.
Happy to help!
Careful though, it is like flashlights; Once you get a taste for performance, you want more.
This is my closet at the house:
We are lucky to get fiber from 2 providers in our neighborhood (we shopped around before buying this house) and we get gigabit speeds for $80/month.
The cabling is a work in progress… I need to clean up the dangly bits a bit and eventually install my cameras. I also plan to get a switch depth server, storage, and a rackmount UPS to go in there where the AT&T box is sitting at the bottom presently. Then I’ll be able to retire my current servers and the big ol 4 post rack next to my desk. Should quiet the office down considerably.
Glad you got it sorted and working to your satisfaction.
I just finished adding some more drives and expanding my storage array.
I have one more drive to swap out but that is probably a month away.
I just discovered the most sickening thing you can possibly imagine. About 40% of my data was DESTROYED when I backed up the main hard drive to the NAS. I have never seen anything like this in my life. I copied all of the pictures from the main drive to the NAS. All of the folders copied like expected, but I found a large part of them to be empty. At first I thought it just did a piss poor job of copying the data, so I went back and hooked up the hard drive again only to find that about half of the files that were not copied have also been DELETED from the original drive!!!
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Some of them irreplaceable family pictures (graduations etc), but actually worse than that is the product photos that took me thousands of hours in total. Often times to create one image with setup, lighting focus stacking 15 images deep (like a 20 hour process for me cuz I’m slow). Not just the final image, but all the raw, and all of the photoshop projects are gone.
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I don’t even understand how that is possible!!!
How did you transfer the files? I would always recommend copying the files and not moving them (cut, if you dragged them onto your share, then you did a cut and paste essentially) Copying, would not affect your source files.
Well, your data should still be on either one of the disks, most likely on your source drive (the drive you sent the files from). As you may or may not be aware, when you delete or data get deleted from storage, the data is not actually “deleted”. It is still there on the drive, but the reference to it is removed, and it can now be written over.
I’m not really sure what has happened in this case, but I would suggest trying something like Recuva from CCleaner, I have had good experiences with it in the past. Failing that I would suggest taking the affected drives to a data recovery specialist to try and recover you irreplaceable files, should have a high success rate, just will cost a little.
I would also heavily suggest not writing anything at all to either disks in the mean time, as if your files have been deleted, when writing new data to the drive it is possible that you may overwrite the “deleted” data, thus making it irrecoverable.
@vestureofblood Yikes!!!
- When was the last time you confirmed that data to be intact?
- I assume this was just a simple copy/paste action via the Windows File Explorer?
- Check the S.M.A.R.T. self-reporting status of the removable drive (How to check if a hard drive is failing using SMART on Windows 10 | Windows Central)
- Only if the drive isn’t reporting itself to be failing and if it’s not making any weird noises, then I would strongly recommend booting your computer with a live Linux USB stick and connect that drive to check if you see the same state of your files. This step is to eliminate the possibility of some weird Windows bug.
- Again, only if the drive isn’t failing, you might be able to recover a lot of data (but also unfortunately deleted stuff, and with no folder structure whatsoever) with PhotoRec: PhotoRec - CGSecurity
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You and me both.
Backup sw should only copy, and never ever ever ever move or delete anything.
It sounds to me like it wasn’t backup software per se, probably just a standard copy/paste action. But I agree that this doesn’t make sense, which is good, because the data is probably still intact somewhere, barring an extremely bad case of data rot on an infrequently used backup drive.
HOLD ON… It may have been some kind of a glitch (OH MAN I HOPE). Many many of the files that were supposed to be transferred were NOT, I am making a screen recording so you guys can see what I mean. Basically most of it has to do with folders within a folder. Example Christmas>2010>Moms house. The Moms house folder and any others in that layer are empty. However SOME of folders on the original drive that were coming up totally blank a moment ago are now showing me some images that were not there before.
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For the main transfer there is a system inside the NAS that did the file transfer. I had a friend help me set this up, and on the page where all of the NAS programming is done there was some option there to have it done. Later after he was gone I did some transfers of my own doing the copy/paste window to window thing from the PC without using that sofware and it appears that the files I did like that are fine. What I transferred that way were video files. Some of them like 5 folders deep and so far I’m not finding any empty ones accept one “project file” folder which might just have been empty anyway.
I would strongly suspect only a Windows File Explorer glitch. By coincidence I just ran across this:
@vestureofblood: I’m still in suspense! Did you ever find your missing data? Best wishes for a good outcome.