Network Dropouts

[simoncn]

(06-08-2014 19:40)magister Wrote:  I have wondered if dropouts may be related to network speed issues. All my equipment except an old laptop and the Bridge is gigabit ethernet. I looked for a way to tell my Airport Extreme to limit one port (the one feeding the Bridge) to 100Mbs but that doesn't seem possible. My idea was to prevent any buffer overruns, if the Bridge could not keep up with with what's coming at it from the NAS--although most of the time it can. Has anyone else here looked at problem from this perspective?

A long time ago, in a land far away, someone invented TCP flow control. This enables the data consumer to telll the data producer when to send data and when not to send data. If the Bridge isn't able to receive more data from the NAS, it should use TCP flow control to make sure the NAS stops sending data until the Bridge is ready to receive it.