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Hi,

I have an issue with network speeds on my QNAP TS464.
I'm on BT FTTP 500 with an ASUS GTAX6000 Router and all devices inclusive of wired and wireless achieve speeds in excess of 400Mbps.

The exception to this is the QNAP which, at the very best will only hit 80-90Mbps max in all scenarios.
I'm running it with link aggregation using the adaptive (802.3ad) config as both the router and QNAP accept this.

The QNAP is wired direct from ports 1 & 2 as stated in the manual with "Bonding/ Link aggregation" in the router enabled.
The QNAP has ports 1 & 2 linked via the network console Control Panel with (802.3ad) enabled and shown to be functioning correctly.

I'm not sure where to go from here to be honest?
Are such transfer speeds (500Mbps even possible with a NAS)??

It's important to understand that there is no direct correlation between the speed of your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and the speed of your local network. Your NAS' speed will be limited by the speed of your local network, and not by your ISP's speed. The maximum speed you can achieve with a NAS over a Gigabit Ethernet network is around 100 Mbps, or around 12.5 MB/s.

In your case, achieving speeds of 80-90 Mbps (or 10-11 MB/s) is actually a good speed for a Gigabit Ethernet network. Link aggregation, also known as NIC bonding, can potentially improve network speeds, but it depends on the support for it in both the router and the NAS, as well as the operating system of the computer you're using to transfer files. In your case, it sounds like both the router and the NAS support link aggregation, and it is configured correctly.

It's possible that the speed of your NAS is limited by other factors such as disk I/O performance or network congestion. You could try benchmarking the disk performance of your NAS, or testing the network speed between the NAS and a computer to see if there is any bottleneck there.