I am experiencing quite low speed with SMB using latest version of Infuse on both Mac (Version 8.5.3 (8.5.5741) )and Apple TV .
When doing a speedtest from my OMV NAS using SBM3, I have approximately 130 Mbps (16MB/s), while when downloading from Finder on my mac I reach 900 MBit/s (basically saturating my gibabit ethernet link).
I have tried many things but the bottleneck seems to be a particular implementation of SMB within Infuse. Has anyone else experienced this?
Thanks!
PS: from the same NAS I have tried using NFS and it improves up to 300Mbps but still far from Finder performance
PPS: Apple tv performances are aligned with infuse on Mac ones
This is sort of expected. Are you using wired Apple TVs? Going wired can increase speeds. I use jellyfin on my NAS and via wired pull 900mbps+ using jellyfin.
This is common with SMB3, it has additional security layers that can slow things down significantly. Try switching to SMB 2 or legacy and see if that helps.
Note:
SMB3 has an optional encryption feature which adds an extra layer of security. However, in some cases having this enabled can lead to lower performance due to the added security overhead. If you are using SMB3 and seeing slower than expected speeds, you may try disabling “Transport encryption” (or similar) on your server. This will allow you to take advantage of the improved connection security of SMB3, but with the same speeds as SMB2.
I understand that you would expect a higher performance in that, but it’s actually causing a problem?
I’m not sure that I’ve ever even seen a remux file over 130 Mb per second. I’m not saying you don’t exist, I’m just saying it would be rare-ish.
I’m sharing via SMB1 and the USB 2.0 port of an old router with a hub and multiple drives plugged into it. It’s pretty slow, but I don’t have any problem with buffering.
It don’t matter if the max SMB3 test throughput is “slower” than theoretical, like the prior poster said, the max ive seen is 120mbs or so to watch a 4k remux in real time. Even watching it, the Apple TV is still fast enough to buffer ahead of real time viewing. if you want to see cool big transfer numbers, use iperf3 on a iperf3 server.