I need help in trying to figure out why my network connection goes to crap when I'm on Teams calls. It's an audio only call and gets super choppy and delayed.
- Mac Studio (M1 Max - 64 GB RAM) - All apps are up to date and current
- Connected via ethernet (no Wifi)
- Mac -- (10gb cat 6a) --> Switch -- (10gb cat 6a) --> pfSense -- (10gb cat 6a) --> Frontier ONT -- 2gb Fiber
- I have iStats running in the menu bar and never see it get over 1 Mbps on calls, so I'm not overloading the connection
- I have a docker container running on another machine doing network checks and pings never spike during the poor connection time period
- I don't see anything on the pfSense side showing load that would cause issues.
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I feel like it's something on the machine locally causing the slow down, but I'm not sure where I should look.
Any good macOS network / performance monitoring tools I could run while on a Teams call to see what's causing the issue?
Mergerfs + snapraid
If a drive fails, you only need the parity disk to restore, not the whole array. Also, if for some reason you can’t restore, you only lose data on the failed drive.
ZFS is great and for real NAS data, I’m a fan. But for large media files and and such that you are write once, read many, it’s a much better option I think.
Mergerfs is just to present all 20 drives as a single mount point so you aren’t searching thru 20 drives when you want to view.