Data transfer speed to USB storage connected to wifi router very slow

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Published on 2012-09-13T05:00:43Z Indexed on 2012/10/28 23:08 UTC
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Here is my setup.

A Linksys Cisco E3200 wifi router.
A MacbookPro running OS X Lion 10.7.4.
A Seagate GoFlex 1TB hard drive connected to wifi router via the USB port.

When I try to transfer data from my MBP to the HDD, the data transfer rate is very low. I'm getting around 3MB/s write speed. This is very slow compared to the speed I get when HDD is directly connected to the MBP.

The HDD is NTFS formatted. And the router provides access to HDD using Samba share. So I connect to the HDD using smb://.

What is the limiting factor here affecting the data transfer rate?

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