The QNAP TS-453be network ports

deuterhunter · Post by **deuterhunter** » Tue Jun 09, 2020 11:05 pm

Hey all! First timer here and a totally new user to the NAS drive world.
I have followed a YT clip for initial setups and configuring my QNAP drive.
At the moment, the NAS ---connects to---> router (1 of the 2 Ethernet port)
I access it by IP address, and have been copying files onto it from desktop, which is connected by a network cable to the router.
My partner has a laptop (windows) and also would like to transfer files onto the NAS but this is done over the router's WiFi.

Would it be a faster transfer to utilise the QNAP's other ethernet port? How do I enable this?

jaysona · Post by **jaysona** » Tue Jun 09, 2020 11:34 pm

deuterhunter wrote: ↑Tue Jun 09, 2020 11:05 pm Hey all! First timer here and a totally new user to the NAS drive world.
I have followed a YT clip for initial setups and configuring my QNAP drive.
At the moment, the NAS ---connects to---> router (1 of the 2 Ethernet port)
I access it by IP address, and have been copying files onto it from desktop, which is connected by a network cable to the router.
My partner has a laptop (windows) and also would like to transfer files onto the NAS but this is done over the router's WiFi.

Would it be a faster transfer to utilise the QNAP's other ethernet port? How do I enable this?

WiFi will always be slower than wired Ethernet, so there will be no benefit to connecting the second Ethernet port to the router.

In addition, having two network ports on the same LAN collision domain is just a bad idea and can lead to all sorts of network issues.

The primary reasons for having multiple Ethernet ports on the NAS is for link aggregation and having a NAS on two different subnets (but no routing between subnets).

deuterhunter · Post by **deuterhunter** » Wed Jun 10, 2020 1:47 am

It made sense that WiFi will always be slower than wired Ethernet. Are you then saying we just have to put it with it and transfers over WiFi because the cost (incl. painful setups) outweighs the benefits?

dolbyman · Post by **dolbyman** » Wed Jun 10, 2020 1:53 am

If you want to use another Ethernet port, get a cheap switch (or see if your router still has switch ports left) the secondary LAN port on the QNAP is not a switch port (as mentioned above)

TeePee3NAS · Post by **TeePee3NAS** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 1:34 pm

The two ethernet ports can be configured as either switches or two different subnets with routing across the two. Yours is a similar question to this one viewtopic.php?f=50&t=155975

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