B2 and M1 MacBook Pro 2021

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I have a new M1 MacBook Pro and finding that uploading flac files to my B2 is taken forever - it's incredibly slow. As far as I know, nothing apart from my laptop has changed on my network so I see now reason for this, but is anyone aware of any compatibility issues ?

This has never been an issue in the past but now it's taking several minutes to upload is track and often doesn't complete, reporting a network error. Same for both the Web UI and in finder when connected to the B2 as a network server. (Uploading over the network from laptop to NAS works as normal at a decent speed.)

All that aside - are there some settings I should look into to try and resolve the problem ?

Thanks !

Mark

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Looking at my router, it seems the Brennan is only connecting at 17-21 Mbps - is this normal ?

[JFBUK]

Hi,

check the strength of your connection.

From the B2 menu

>SETTINGS>MAINTENANCE>WIFI STRENGTH

The lower the value you see the better and anything higher than 60 is starting to get marginal.

It don't know how technically confident you are but running a traceroute from your Mac to the B2 would be informative too.

Follow the instructions here

https://www.hellotech.com/guide/for/how-to-run-a-traceroute-mac

John

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Thanks John

I switched the B2 to connect to a powerline wifi extender that is closer to the unit and the speed and functionality is much improved. I can't seem to be able to check the speed through the modem because it assumes that it is connected by ethernet via the extender's base unit.

The strength is now -27dBm

There's only 1 hop in the traceroute ... (I think this is correct as it's the same network ?) ... so I tried a few times

traceroute to 192.168.0.99 (192.168.0.99), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  192.168.0.99 (192.168.0.99)  5.710 ms  6.143 ms  10.896 ms

traceroute to 192.168.0.99 (192.168.0.99), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  192.168.0.99 (192.168.0.99)  5.134 ms  10.661 ms  6.263 ms

traceroute to 192.168.0.99 (192.168.0.99), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  192.168.0.99 (192.168.0.99)  8.164 ms  6.870 ms  6.039 ms

Mark

[JFBUK]

Hi Mark,

Good news

The B2 has problems with high network latency so improving your network strength seems to have sorted things
.

The trace route was just a double check as you said your other devices had solid connections

John