Want to find out if the RB2011 running 802.3ad will be the same as a switch that supports this protocol? I am unable to get full speed to my NAS.

Hmmm... I am running it behind my NAS and I am not getting consistent speed with LACP. Perhaps have something to do with this auto negotiate issue. From the thread you posted, someone mentioned that the problem have not been sorted yet.

The NAS is connected with bonding (802.3ad) to 2 ports and my computer with another 2 of the 5 gigabit ports the rest of my equipment are connected to the lan ports. No issues with auto negotiation just not getting above 100MB/sec speeds from my NAS, in fact is worst than a single connection. Tried all possible settings I can see. Not too sure where is the bottleneck. Any ideas the best way to check.

These are the settings on the NAS



and on Mikrotik.



Seems pretty normal to me. Perhaps the bottleneck is on the NICs.

Yes it's a Syno box running SHR-1 which is similar to Raid5. Single connection to the box can hit 100MB++/sec easily on this router. Running SSD on my computer so peaking close to advertise 200MB/sec from the NAS should be possible or at least close to it. Unfortunately i do not have any switch that supports 802.3ad. Normal switches can't do the job.

er dont think so. i am not too sure if this router handles it well too or not.

After several weeks of testing I am stuck and about given up trying to get LACP working as it should. Perhaps a L2 switch would save me so much more grief, which I am just about to go get it. Hope someone could shed some light here.

My setup:-

RB2011 - Ports 1&2 connected to Mac bonded ports, Ports 3,4,5 connected to Synology running 802.3ad(LACP).

Both end seems to be ok, initially I can get over 140MBps over time it kinda slowed down to below 70MBps.

I broke the bond on my mac and can hit close to 100MBps on an individual connection.

Any ideas?

Fixed my problem, got a L2 switch and LACP working fine can peak my connection. Should have done this in the first place.... hehe