If you have an SFP+ port, maybe try the Synology E10G21-F2 with a ½, 1 or 3m DAC cable. I use one with 1m DAC on a RS1221+ and that works great on 10Gbps. No need to aggregate and super stable connection. Less power consumption also then when using ethernet.
Transfer speed and bandwidth are the same, usually. But in your case, you refer to your internet bandwidth (when doing the speed test). If your internet speed/bandwidth is 1 Gbit, you will not have any speed increase by aggregating 2x 1 GBit LAN ports within your network since the bottleneck is not the 1 Gbit network (LAN) but the WAN. But if you write huge files to your NAS, you should get about double the bandwidth with 2 LAN ports aggregated. Assuming you are not using RAID1 (which is pretty slow), you should be able to have nearly 100 MB/s transfer rate without dual LAN and 200 MB/s with dual- LAN aggregation enabled. Right?
Yeah, transfer speed and bandwidth are the same thing. They are both measure in bps (Kbps, Mbps, Gbps) whether it's on a local network or internet speed. The reason his speed didn't change was because he's only using a 1Gbps NIC. The network can only be as fast as the slowest connection. I just finished setting up link aggregation on my synology DS918+ with a USW-Enterprise-24-PoE and 2.5G NIC in my desktop. Running OST, my download was 1388Mbps and upload was 1955Mbps, whereas before I was capped at about 980Mbps both directions. So doing this does in fact increase "bandwidth" if you have the equipment to support the faster speeds.
Great video. I have a DS920+ and USW-Ent-24-PoE (connected to UDM-PRO). I'm trying the same setup but for whatever reason, once bonding and link aggregation are complete, the NAS loses Internet connection after 4-5 minutes. CloudSync is spinning, can't even see if an update is available, synchronization of NTP server doesn't work, ... Is there a configuration on the NAS or switch that I am missing?
@@TheComputerLab After several tests, I am able to determine that it's not caused by the link aggregation. It does it with only one port connected. I was able to get a continuous Internet connection by creating a VLAN. However, it still doesn't work on my main network (where everything else is). It's likely a network or port config but I have not figured out. I have DNS server enabled on the VLAN with port profile to the VLAN instead of all. I tried the same config on the main network... Still dropping after 15 minutes. Any suggestions of config on UDM pro?
What if Link aggregation enabled on client side. Eg: M1 Mac Mini have 10GbE and 1GbE (USB Adaptor) if link aggregation enabled on Mac i should see 2 Gbps from my Synology NAS right? Because client and server have 2 physical connection. What if my switch have 10GbE interface and I can link aggregate Synology with the same switch, other clients on that switch with 10GbE can get 2 Gbps from Synology?
As I stated in the video the speed will always only be 1Gbe in and out of the Synology NAS regardless of what is talking to it - the only time you will see a difference is if you have multiple users accessing the Synology the speed will keep up as it takes more traffic to saturate the connection.
I have a Unifi which now seems to be Gen 1 (USW-24-G1) dint know they have new ones out, looks like I can do this, im about to get a Synology box and think I shall do this, have a few Plex users so it may be useful to enable this. So I think my Gen 1 switch can do this. My question so if for some reason someone pulls one of the ethernets out or accidentally moves it to another ports on the switch does the Synology keep working?
Hey Ray - Yes if a Ethernet cable goes down or gets pulled then the connection keeps running adding the ability for port aggregation gives the Synology connectivity resilience.
The Speedtest in the end should have changed otherwise the client is limited to a single GbE connection. With 2.5G, 5G or 10G clients it should use the aggregated speed of 2G.
The link aggregation on the Synology DS920 only supports failover and combined traffic management (it does not support extra speed as I state in the video)
@@TheComputerLab Nice video. I am not trying to challenge the Synology fail over aggregation statement. But I was wondering if the Open Speed Test "server" was on at least a 2.5G or better link. Otherwise the OST server's link maxed out at its 1Gbit speed. I am making several assumptions on how the OST works. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Absolutely no regrets, mines been faultless since I have had it stable / runs plex multiple streams, docker with programs running and also acts as a back up for phones (iOS) as well as sr info files.
Really helpful video, thanks for putting the time in! Now I'm editing directly from my NAS in Final Cut Pro with link aggregation helping things out!
Thank you sir, helped that you had ubiquity too!!!
Excellent!
If you have an SFP+ port, maybe try the Synology E10G21-F2 with a ½, 1 or 3m DAC cable. I use one with 1m DAC on a RS1221+ and that works great on 10Gbps. No need to aggregate and super stable connection. Less power consumption also then when using ethernet.
Excellent resource - exactly what I was looking for, thank you! I assume the 16-port Ubiquiti Light switch would provide the same results.
Hi, Could you do a demonstration setup of VLANs on TP-Link Omada and a Synology NAS?
Brilliant!
works perfectly. thanks
Transfer speed and bandwidth are the same, usually. But in your case, you refer to your internet bandwidth (when doing the speed test). If your internet speed/bandwidth is 1 Gbit, you will not have any speed increase by aggregating 2x 1 GBit LAN ports within your network since the bottleneck is not the 1 Gbit network (LAN) but the WAN. But if you write huge files to your NAS, you should get about double the bandwidth with 2 LAN ports aggregated. Assuming you are not using RAID1 (which is pretty slow), you should be able to have nearly 100 MB/s transfer rate without dual LAN and 200 MB/s with dual- LAN aggregation enabled. Right?
Yeah, transfer speed and bandwidth are the same thing. They are both measure in bps (Kbps, Mbps, Gbps) whether it's on a local network or internet speed. The reason his speed didn't change was because he's only using a 1Gbps NIC. The network can only be as fast as the slowest connection. I just finished setting up link aggregation on my synology DS918+ with a USW-Enterprise-24-PoE and 2.5G NIC in my desktop. Running OST, my download was 1388Mbps and upload was 1955Mbps, whereas before I was capped at about 980Mbps both directions. So doing this does in fact increase "bandwidth" if you have the equipment to support the faster speeds.
Great video. I have a DS920+ and USW-Ent-24-PoE (connected to UDM-PRO). I'm trying the same setup but for whatever reason, once bonding and link aggregation are complete, the NAS loses Internet connection after 4-5 minutes. CloudSync is spinning, can't even see if an update is available, synchronization of NTP server doesn't work, ... Is there a configuration on the NAS or switch that I am missing?
Bit of an odd one that losing connection after 5 mins, did you sort the link aggregation.
@@TheComputerLab After several tests, I am able to determine that it's not caused by the link aggregation. It does it with only one port connected. I was able to get a continuous Internet connection by creating a VLAN. However, it still doesn't work on my main network (where everything else is). It's likely a network or port config but I have not figured out. I have DNS server enabled on the VLAN with port profile to the VLAN instead of all. I tried the same config on the main network... Still dropping after 15 minutes. Any suggestions of config on UDM pro?
What if Link aggregation enabled on client side. Eg: M1 Mac Mini have 10GbE and 1GbE (USB Adaptor) if link aggregation enabled on Mac i should see 2 Gbps from my Synology NAS right? Because client and server have 2 physical connection.
What if my switch have 10GbE interface and I can link aggregate Synology with the same switch, other clients on that switch with 10GbE can get 2 Gbps from Synology?
As I stated in the video the speed will always only be 1Gbe in and out of the Synology NAS regardless of what is talking to it - the only time you will see a difference is if you have multiple users accessing the Synology the speed will keep up as it takes more traffic to saturate the connection.
I have a Unifi which now seems to be Gen 1 (USW-24-G1) dint know they have new ones out, looks like I can do this, im about to get a Synology box and think I shall do this, have a few Plex users so it may be useful to enable this. So I think my Gen 1 switch can do this. My question so if for some reason someone pulls one of the ethernets out or accidentally moves it to another ports on the switch does the Synology keep working?
Hey Ray - Yes if a Ethernet cable goes down or gets pulled then the connection keeps running adding the ability for port aggregation gives the Synology connectivity resilience.
@@TheComputerLab Good to hear I shall make sure I set that up with both ports then, sounds like a win win
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Can you make one for UniFi to Unraid please.
The Speedtest in the end should have changed otherwise the client is limited to a single GbE connection. With 2.5G, 5G or 10G clients it should use the aggregated speed of 2G.
The link aggregation on the Synology DS920 only supports failover and combined traffic management (it does not support extra speed as I state in the video)
@@TheComputerLab Nice video. I am not trying to challenge the Synology fail over aggregation statement. But I was wondering if the Open Speed Test "server" was on at least a 2.5G or better link. Otherwise the OST server's link maxed out at its 1Gbit speed. I am making several assumptions on how the OST works. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Yeah, is the exact time where we regret not buying a 10 or 2.5GB model. :)
Absolutely no regrets, mines been faultless since I have had it stable / runs plex multiple streams, docker with programs running and also acts as a back up for phones (iOS) as well as sr info files.
@@TheComputerLab Well I did, but only found out when I got 10GB, I couldn't go back that is for sure.