Well just seems that 1.0 just adds insult to injury if your talking
large files. Add that while sending across the network doesn't help
matters. In any event, I'm curious as well so will follow the thread.
On Aug 5, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
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]
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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
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Scott Howell
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