OK, this to me is extremely irritating. perhaps one of you may have an
idea.
I have a 300GB drive which is connected currently via USB to my Mac. The
way I have this ran is I have a 7 port USB 2.0 hub, which is running into my
logic board on the tower. Being this tower is so old, it only has
integrated USB 1.0, plus only two ports. So, because of this, it's kind a
catch 22. Anyway, running directly into one of the USB ports on the tower
actually seems to make things even slower, but here's the thing. My Itunes
library is on this drive, and I have told ITunes not to copy things to my
library when importing. I also told ITunes to organize my library. So,
right now, my mm volume: I call it MM for multimedia, which is my Seagate
300GB USB drive, is serving all my podcasts, all my audible books, all my
music, etc. basicly it has about 1200 something odd directories on it for
each artist, etc. it is mounted on my desktop from /Volumes/MM. Now that
drive is going through the USB2.0 7 port hub, which is going through the USB
1.0 port on my tower. OK? You following me here? Now yes this drive is
also firewire ready, and yes I do have a firewire port, but I can't find the
dad blame firewire cable that came with the drive, and I don't have any
spares, nor time now to be looking around for one. Anyway, I have created
an alias in my home directory called mm which points to my mm volume.
Now, out here on my windows machine, running xp sp2, I connect via windows
sharing which I have turned on in system preferences, on the Mac, I can see
my whole home directory. MM is in deed there, and if I hit inter on it from
windows explorer, I definitely can read and write to it. The only problem
is, the speed is insane. I mean, just to move 3 Celine Dion albums from
this laptop to in there took about 28 minutes, and that is still climbing
slower and slower on the time. I don't understand why this is taking so
long. I'm on a wi fi connection out here, and my mac's ethernet hard wired
to the router, which is a Linksys WRT54GS with speed booster running the
latest firmware. I'm a network admin certified actually, so don't worry
about talking jargan to me. I'll follow ya most likely. Firewall is off on
both my laptop and on my Mac, and is turned on in the router. I have
however made double sure nothing is getting filtered that shouldn't be, and
all looks very good in the router log. Of corse my wireless is going
54MBPS, with excellent signal strength. I'm on WPA and am using A E S11. I
have both 802.11A, B, and G all 3 enabled and am broadcasting on channel6.
no wireless devices in range like cordless phones etc. are interfering. My
desktop windows tower is also connected to the router via hard wire
ethernet, and it too, is having issues with the speed.
Does any one have the slightest clue?
Chris.
