IPKG Software Packages

Besides QPKG packages, IPKG (Itsy Package Management System) packages can be also installed on the TS-419P II following the procedure below.


First of all you have to go to the Applications Servers/QPKG Center page of the web interface and from the "available" packages install and enable the Optware IPKG package.


Next, you have to open a telnet or SSH session to the NAS and the best program to do this is PuTTY, which is free. The Telnet or SSH server has to be enabled first using the Network Services/Telnet/SSH page of the NAS web interface. In PuTTY after you put in the correct IP address of the NAS you hit "Open" and for username you type "admin" and then the admin password. If you haven't changed it, the default is "admin".


The IPKG package we are going to install in this guide is iPerf, a program for measuring maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth performance. In PuTTY's CLI we type the following to install iPerf: ipgk install iperf

If you want to take a look at all available IPKG packages type: ipkg list | less


To benchmark the connection between NAS and your Windows client PC, download iPerf.exe and execute it through the CMD shell (iperf -s). Afterwards run the following on the NAS, through PuTTY: iperf -u -c 192.168.1.2 -b 100M. Replace 192.168.1.2 with the IP address of your PC.

Increase RAID Rebuilding/Synchronization Speed

The first time you will create your RAID array you will notice the long hours (sometimes even days) you will have to wait for it to be fully synchronized. Also in case a disk fails or something else goes wrong then the rebuild time of the RAID is equally long. This happens because the default RAID reconstruction minimum speed is very low (only 5MB/s), to utilize equally low CPU resources and make the NAS server respond fast to user requests. If you want to speed things up little bit you can increase it to 15MB/s (don't try higher values, since the CPU will hit 100% utilization constantly making the NAS unresponsible even through web interface).

Through PuTTY, send the following command to check the current min speed limit: cat /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min

To increase it to 15MB/s type the following: echo 15000 >/proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min

To monitor the RAID sync or rebuild procedure with more details, use the following command: cat /proc/mdstat

To make the RAID reconstruction speed changes permanent, you must put the corresponding command into the "autostart.sh", otherwise speed_limit_min value will drop to the default 5 MB/s after each reboot. An easy to use editor that's installed on the NAS is "nano".