Looking to boost your home network performance for better access to your NAS.
Looking to boost your home network performance for better access to your NAS.
Hey everyone, I'm working on boosting my speed to my Synology NAS. I'm connecting both 1Gig ports from it to a single gig switch with link aggregation enabled. My PC uses Cat8 and has a multi-gig port, but the switch only sends 1Gig per port. I'm trying to combine two of those outgoing ports into one Cat8 port using link aggregation. Any suggestions? Is this even feasible? Thanks ahead!
Which Synology NAS models are available? You should consider using SMB3 Multichannel instead of Link Aggregation here. This allows both ports to operate at higher speeds. The simpler option is to select a NAS equipped with a 10GbE port.
I need to combine the two ports on the network switch that connect to my PC using a single 1 GbE cable. Windows 10 doesn’t support aggregating links on the host machine.
Choose smb3 multichannel instead of linking aggregation. Skip the switch configuration entirely.
Sure! It sounds like you're curious about smb3. Let me know if you'd like tips or resources on implementing it. For a beginner-friendly overview, you might check out simple guides or official documentation.
Multiple NICs can connect to the same network using SMB3 multichannel. Each device receives its own IP address and communicates with the client, sharing all IP addresses from both ends while enabling several data streams.