File transfers between SheepShaver and network server extremely slow

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File transfers between SheepShaver and network server extremely slow

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Connect the shared folder of synogyNAS through TCP/IP, the transmission speed is very slow, only about 1MB/s. What can I do to improve the network transmission speed of sheepshaver?
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how to improve the netspeed?
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shelsm wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 3:38 am how to improve the netspeed?
Are you using SLIrP or Tun/Tap networking?

What are you using to measure the speed?

Web browsers (Classilla) are slow because the code itself runs slow. I haven't had issues when using Fetch to grab stuff from my network server over FTP. Using AFP, you might have multiple bottlenecks; I find QEMU-PPC works much better here.
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adespoton wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 3:26 pm
shelsm wrote: Wed Apr 28, 2021 3:38 am how to improve the netspeed?
Are you using SLIrP or Tun/Tap networking?

What are you using to measure the speed?

Web browsers (Classilla) are slow because the code itself runs slow. I haven't had issues when using Fetch to grab stuff from my network server over FTP. Using AFP, you might have multiple bottlenecks; I find QEMU-PPC works much better here.
I use slirp and link to NAS file server through IP address. The speed of copying files is very slow. But QEMU is not as fast as sheepshaver
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So what file sharing protocol are you using for the NAS? I presume it's AFP, not SMB? If it's AFP, which version is it? Info on the versions available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Filing_Protocol

Personally, I've had the best experience running NFS on my NAS and an NFS client on OS 9 on both QEMU and SheepShaver (and actual hardware).
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adespoton wrote: Thu Apr 29, 2021 3:38 pm So what file sharing protocol are you using for the NAS? I presume it's AFP, not SMB? If it's AFP, which version is it? Info on the versions available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Filing_Protocol

Personally, I've had the best experience running NFS on my NAS and an NFS client on OS 9 on both QEMU and SheepShaver (and actual hardware).
Even if the peer-to-peer macos9 physical machine PPC and sheepshaver are connected from the adapter, the network speed can only reach 300KB / m
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Not sure if this is relevant here, but in our earlier conversation you wrote that you run SheepShaver in OSX 10.9 in VMware (I suppose in Windows).
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Ronald P. Regensburg wrote: Fri Apr 30, 2021 11:29 am Not sure if this is relevant here, but in our earlier conversation you wrote that you run SheepShaver in OSX 10.9 in VMware (I suppose in Windows).
I have two sheepshaver on PC and MACOSX
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