Chris,
I really suggest that you take the time to find the Firewire cable you
have misplaced. The speed difference between Firewire and USB 1.0 is
like a scooter to a Porsche. I believe that you will notice a
considerable difference even when accessing it via the network.
Later...
On 5-Aug-08, at 1:45 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.
Tim Kilburn
& Carter the Canine
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
