Then your client has a terrible network card. Can you run the iperf test going the other direction?Normally the FreeNAS server is connected to my PC via a D-Link DIR-855L router using standard Ethernet cables. I have tried switching out cables with no difference. I have also tried connecting my FreeNAS server directly to my PC with no difference in speed.
My servers specs.
Motherboard - Supermicro X8DTH-IF
CPU - Xeon E5520
RAM - 24GB
Can you run the iperf test going the other direction?
I want you to try and connect your server directly to FreeNAS. Then run iperf as the server on bother FreeNAS and your Windows client. So you can test both ways.Can you clarify this? Do you want to to connect my server directly to my PC and run the test? I can't see how that would give me different results considering my transfer speed is the same either way.
You have stopped taking advice so no one is helping you.I created the pool in FreeNAS 9.2 then then imported it into OMV 3.
I was tired of messing around with iperf and I thought that the only way to really know if I have bad hardware or if FreeNAS is bad is to use a different OS so I put in the drive that had OMV on it, booted up the server and copied over some files. After seeing it work, I knew FreeNAS had to be the culprit.
Now if only one of the experts here can help me figure out why FreeNAS is bottlenecking my connection...
In your original post how did you get 200MB/s? That is impossible unless your have 10gbit networking.I am getting very slow transfer speeds to my FreeNAS server. I was getting speeds of 11-12MB/s so I bypassed the switch it was on and connected it to my router and got speeds of around 29MB/s which is still way to slow. My router is new and even on my old router, I was able to transfer files between my PC and my Norco server at over 200MB/s.
I know so little about networking that I can't even begin to think of what the issue is.
Motherboard - Supermicro X8DTH-IF
CPU - Xeon E5520
RAM - 24GB
Router - D-Link DIR-855L
You have stopped taking advice so no one is helping you.
In your original post how did you get 200MB/s? That is impossible unless your have 10gbit networking.
Your problem is difficult because your understanding and descriptions are not good enough yet to get help. You show iperf results that are normal. But you also say you had 200MB/s which is impossible and you also have 12MB/s. You need to narrow it down and make your problem simpler.