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Question : Windows File Sharing (SMB) Throughput Over WAN Connections
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I'm curious if there are resources or tools to help estimate baseline throughput of SMB file sharing over WAN connections. For two sites connected via T1s w/ an avg 50ms latency between them I see about 1GB/hour practical throughput for file transfers over SMB. This seems worse than I would have predicted. My configuration uses IPSEC tunnels to secure traffic between peer sites.
I know that SMB is latency-sensitive and a "chatty" protocol, and there are products (Riverbed, for example) that attempt to address these issues via caching and transmission avoidance. Are there any tunable parameters I can use to improve performance? Does anyone have references on how to baseline throughput?
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Answer : Windows File Sharing (SMB) Throughput Over WAN Connections
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