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    (Solved) Strange transfer rate (slow) over the network

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      gui_
      last edited by gui_

      Hello,

      I am new to retropie and I just completed my setup with pi3-B / retropie 4.1.

      Everything worked fine until I tried to transfer large files (~100MB) over the network - ethernet. Problem is that the transfer rate starts normally but then it suddenly drops to zero and goes back to normal after 5-20 seconds. I recorded this video for better visualization:

      https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9763Hn4UiocRkNiVV9LNVRacnM/view?usp=sharing

      This keeps happening all the time and it makes transfering large files or large amount of files a pain in th a**.

      My other devices on my network are operating normally. I tried to restart all my network devices.

      Wifi is even worse, it keeps disconnecting and not reconnecting, even tough my wifi devices work normally in the same room.

      Any help is appreciated!

      Also, a noob question: How can I check how much space I have left in my sd card?

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      • edmaul69E
        edmaul69 @gui_
        last edited by

        @gui_ i cant answer everything but if you quit emulationstation it shows you in terminal.

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        • cyperghostC
          cyperghost @gui_
          last edited by cyperghost

          @gui_ said in Strange transfer rate (slow) over the network:

          Also, a noob question: How can I check how much space I have left in my sd card?

          df command is fine

          df
          df -h
          

          Google is also your friend
          http://www.tecmint.com/how-to-check-disk-space-in-linux/

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          • BuZzB
            BuZz administrators @gui_
            last edited by

            @gui_ sounds like your sdcard write speed is the bottleneck. It goes fast while data is cached in memory, but eventually it needs to be written. What sdcard do you have ?

            To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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            • ShakzS
              Shakz
              last edited by

              Yep what @buzz said.....wondering about that SD card.
              By default the pi does not actually use all of a class 10 chip....from my testing it clocks in at around a class 4-6 without overclocking the sdram settings.
              For disk space I made a small toolkit to help but the toolkit is 100% dependant on the network.
              there is a script in there called Disk Space that will log into your pi and spit out the available space.
              I demo it here.

              RetroPie tips, tricks, and tweaks: https://www.youtube.com/eazyhax

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                gui_
                last edited by

                Hi guys,

                Thanks you all for your replies.

                The "strange" transfer rate was indeed caused by the sd card write speed. I had a class 4 and now switched to a class 10. The problem still persists but at much lesser and acceptable extent. Guess it is because the transfer rate over ethernet is still higher than the sd write speed.

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                • ShakzS
                  Shakz @gui_
                  last edited by

                  @gui_ even with an SD card overclock (the only way to get the pi to actually read/write at class 10 speeds...the max I can upload a file at is around 2mbps....but normally floats between that and 1.5

                  RetroPie tips, tricks, and tweaks: https://www.youtube.com/eazyhax

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                    Johny
                    last edited by Johny

                    If anyone else has this issue, when booting up and remain in the "Welcome, no gamepads detected" I get constant 2.4MBps with absolutely no failure, found this by accident. In other menus I get from 0 to 1.0 with constant fails.

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