have you turned off ipv6? Windows is my bottleneck too. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Gilland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 3:45 PM Subject: Really Aggervating problem
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.
