Slow Gigabit ethernet speeds on 2013 MacPro
Hello,
I have a late 2013 Mac Pro, Had it for maybe 3 years or so now and just am noticing an issue with it. (fast forward to 3rd paragraph in for actual issue if you want to bypass the fluff) It all started with me trying to run a network "stress" test on my synology NAS. I had every computer and possible media playback device steam a HD or 4k video. (8+ devices) again the test was on the NAS, but led me to find a flaw with my Mac Pro.
To add to the stress test, while playing all the videos, I started a file copy from the Nas to my mac, and the video stopped playback on just my Mac and would not continue till I stopped the file transfer. At first I did not understand what was going on. I have my gaming PC right next to me and did the same with no issues... in fact was playing the movie still and was able to transfer the file at still a high transfer rate (dont remember but does not matter all too much)
So... Fast forward to last night, I started running some more test just on the Mac. Using single ethernet connection to the same switch the Nas is on, I run Blackmagicdesign disk speed test on my "work" share folder, I get roughly 30MB/s read and wright... thought that was a bit low as on my PC (which is wired through the same networking hardware) I just about saturate Gigabit getting right at 100MB/s. Next I do a standard file transfer of a 3GB file... While there is no data rate indicator (that I know of) in OSX, my Nas is showing 28-30MB upload. sooo this all seems really odd.. I take it a step further...
I then link aggregate both the Mac and my Nas to the switch (yes its fully supported) on the switch verified all setting on all 3 ends of this and everything is "all green"..... Long story short, NO CHANGE in transfer rates, still right at 30MB/s. unfortunately I do not have another computer that can do link aggregation.. so I cant test with my PCs.
But even with my Mac in single gigabit ethernet connection, im only 1/3 of the performance it should be at.
I have done all kinds of searches online and have not found anything. I dont know if there is some hidden setting im missing... but... I never messed with any network settings because I never needed to.
Sorry for making this so long, and I know its not scientific, but the data is there in real world usage. I always felt that my Mac was dog slow at transferring project files (which can be well over 50GB each) , but... never paid much attention till now on the actual transfer rates. Now that I got this network switch that supports link aggregation, I wish I could use it. Shoot, getting full gigabit speeds alone would be a huge jump in transfer rates.
Thank you,
Andre
Mac Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3), 2013 - 12 core - 64GB - D500s