Link Aggregation on Synology NAS + NetGear - Get Better Performance out of Your NAS! | 4K TUTORIAL

Link Aggregation (LACP) allows you to combine multiple ethernet ports into a single faster port! This provides both failover support as well as a faster connection when you have multiple users. For this tutorial, I am using a Netgear smart managed switch combined with the Synology DS1819+ which has 4 gigabit ethernet ports.

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[luckyhanger]

Great video! I checked and my current managed switch does not support link aggregation so I just ordered a new one. You're videos have really helped me setup my DS220+ and now I'll have link aggregation set up. All the setup videos and nobody discussed LA, the options, the requirements for the switch to support it. Thanks for sharing!

[tofu_golem]

Thanks. You cleared up questions I had about how link aggregation works. I was worried that I did something wrong when I couldn't get better than 1 Gb/sec between the NAS and my computer. Looks like I have it set up correctly.

[TDHobbies]

Thanks, I did this using and ASUS RT-AX88U, my options using DSM 6.2.4 were different, but your explinaiton gave me enough information to choose the correct option. It's great that you go into that extra detail of what is going on

[kowabundant]

We love your videos as they are very helpful. You have helped guide us so well when dealing with a RAID config. We just purchased a DS1522+ for our office and are excited to implement for video files. The 10gbe expansion is on its way as they have sold out many places already. Looking forward to the speed (we also have 10gbe cards in PC) we hope to use link aggregation as well as 10gbe but not sure if that is possible. PS. You are the master of the morph cut! I barely notice and we are video pros.

[Grolnn]

Thanks for this! I couldn't quite figure out whether I needed to enable LAG on both my switch (Netgear) and Synology. Very concise information. Subscribed!

[jimholloway]

Thanks for the detailed explanations on all points. I have a DS1815+ and a Ubiquiti 48 port 1gb switch and I was able to get both configured to create the Bond 1 and the IEEE802.3ad Dynamic Link Aggregation. Before I just had 4 - 1gb cables connected to the switch. With both the bonding of the 4 - 1gb ports and setting up the Ubiquiti switch I should see better throughput. Now I am off to see if I am getting the better throughput I expect. thanks again..

[qhiinc]

Does that Netgear switch support IEEE 802.3ad for the Synology DS1520+?

[Justcuz]

I know this is an old video but I just got the ds220+ and it's a little different. @ the 5:36 area I don't get the choice to select connections. It goes straight to the manual up part, which that part is requesting more info like vlan info etc. I don't have a vlan set up. Not sure how to proceed from here because it won't let you

[M-J-P]

Awesome.. Exactly what I needed to take the advantage of Link aggregation. And what it is. I am subscribed to your channel. Thank You. 🙏

[SingularityFM]

@SingularityFM
25 minutes ago
I just bought a Synology DS 723+, and I don't have a switch. I followed your instructions but used the automated version for creating a bond and took a chance to implement it by connecting both my Gigabit cables to the router I have from Bell Canada.

It seems that everything went fine, and the good news is I didn't get locked out of my NAS ;-) The interesting thing, however, is that my browser auto-refreshed when I implemented the bonding, and now I am getting a warning that connection to the NAS is "not secure" and Chrome is showing the https in red with a strike through.

Should I be worried that somehow my NAS is now insecure and "went public" on the entire internet so anyone can highjack it?

[Link]

What happens if we have an existing 24-port switch that does not have Link Aggregation, can we buy a smart switch with this function and connect a NAS to it and connect that new switch to the existing 24-port switch, will we get full functionality or will the connection of the new switch switch with the old one limit everything because they are connected with one gigabit network cable? Computers are connected to that 24 port switch.

[birit]

I have a new Synology ds224 NAS and exactly the same Netgear GS110EMX but I cannot get the LAG to enable in LACP mode, but when I change type to Static mode it works. Why?

[lukbabalis]

Hi @SpaceRex! Something I don't understand is how I am supposed to link my Router, in my case the FRITZ!Box 6690 Cable, with the switch. If my router supports fir instance only 1Gb connection, then I will have a bottleneck from the router side, no?

[srfurley]

Not all Netgear smart managed switches support link aggregation. My core switch is a GS308T which does support it, and it works fine with a Synology NAS. I have two different models of edge switch, one is the GS305E and the other is a PoE switch which I cannot remember the model of. Neither of these supports link aggregation. The ‘E’ switch supports Vlans, QoS, loop detection and can display statistics and do a simple cable test, but not much more. The ‘T’ series switch can do just about anything that you would expect a layer 2 switch to do. It cost be about 40 GBP with a discount, I think it’s about 50 normally. Had it for about six months and no problems with it. No 10Gb, but I don’t need that.

[JaredIsham]

But the speed dropped from 108Mb/s to 23MB/s - did it go back up to 100 Mb/s?

[freevid]

You described Balance SMB and go on to use and set up the Balance TCP option but the first option (B. SMB) does it require a smart managed switch? Or are there simply no options with unmanaged switches.

[phanigurram]

Do link aggregate doubt the speed if we disconnect lapto?

[frederick_l]

Thanks and easy tutorial, I have Netgear jgs524 and a DS920+ and every setting worked BUT when I connect the second LAN cable, I can connect internaly to the DSM but the DS cant connect to the internet.

[WRNPR]

Cheapest managed switch compatible with DS1019+ ?
Need to do link aggregation

[brimur]

FYI Synology does support SMB Multichannel, you just need to enable it in smb.conf