I guess when you say a bottle neck I don't follow what you mean? The speeds
from the drive to the computer without going over the network indeed, are
rediculously slow, but, they are not so pathetically slow that it's like it
was over the network.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: Really Aggervating problem
Is it possibly just the fact that your running at usb 1.0 speeds? What is
the process like just copying from your internal drive to that external?
I wonder if this is a bottleneck that is being compounded by everything
else. Sorry I can't offer much more, but I'm curious about the situation
as well.
On Aug 5, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
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.
Scott Howell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
