Networking and servers • SMB over Pi Access Point

Hello,
My goal is to have my Rasbperry Pi 5 be a "wireless network drive".

So have it be an Access point that I can connect to wirelessly, then any external hard drive connected to the Raspi5, will be available for clients to read and write data off of.

I managed to successfully do so by:
1. Configuring an AP
2. Creating a samba network share
3. Configuring custom auto mount using these lovely scripts https://github.com/rbrito/usbmount - it was specifically useful for dealing with permission issues.

So...
Laptop ---- connected wirelessly to Pi network ------> Pi
It all seems to work, though the problem I'm facing is that the transfer speed is very low - 1.01MB/s.

And, just for reference, when setting up the same samba network share over my home network so...
Laptop ---- connect wirelessly to home network ------> Home Router <------- connected wirelessly ----- Pi
I could get much better transfer speed - 6.08MB/s

Any ideas ?

Statistics: Posted by safi — Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:20 pm — Replies 0 — Views 15

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