MPC Club Reviews 2010
And the trouble does not end there. With any torrent feature tailored for
convenience, flexible use, automation, we also expect some intelligence like
not being able to add the same file twice which, as you can see, we were able
to do…
When deleting one of the double files, apparently both files are deleted…
Starting a torrent then takes 5 to 10 seconds each and a page refresh.
Stopping a torrent takes a few seconds and a page refresh. There’s no option
to pause downloads or rearrange downloads in priority. This does need an
automated start of downloading files and obviously a setting for max
simultaneous downloads, information like expected remaining time and so
on…
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ESULTS
Ow o wow… it hurts… While the unit is absolutely amazing so far in design
for the purpose of media usage, the LOOQS and easy setup + overall features
cannot overcome the limitation applied not only by the weak torrent client,
but most of all, a weak performance. For write access over GBIT cross link,
we measure hardly 14MB/s while expecting to squeeze at least 30 – 50
MB/s out of a GBIT NAS. The read performance on top is rather erratic in its
performance balancing below 2MB/s up to 9MB/s…
Although we were very positive so far about this unit, this is a crack in the
shield of finesse and our overall appreciation about the LOOQS MeeBox is
altered, all that is due to performance and the torrent side of the product.
When a device is designed as a home entertainment, especially in these
times of HD, we’d expect it to perform accordingly and transferring HD files
at these rates measured will take ages and that’s simply not a good thing. If
LOOQS can overcome this (in my opinion) poor performance and enhance
few aspects of the torrent integration and overall convenience features, we
would have a hell of a device. Now we have a great and easy device that
unfortunately does not perform well enough in the most important part of it
all: transfer performance.
