Odd, whatever works over ethernet should work over wifi, albeit more slowly.
Most Macs can do Gigabit ethernet which means they can transfer up to
100MB/second. Even a perfect connection on the latest 802.11N wifi peaks
at 300Megabit (.3 Gigabit). I have my laptop and an old Mac tower
hardwired to a GB hub with TimeMachine backups going to a drive on the
tower. The thing easily hits 40-50MB/s transfer rates and I suspect the
limiting factor is the slow low-power drive in the laptop.
For a decade or so Macs had built-in automatic crossover on the ethernet
port. If you're not familiar, imagine you had two phones dialed up to
two people. If you wanted those two people to talk to each other you
could just push the handsets together but they would be ear to ear and
mic to mic. That wouldn't work. You would need to flip one over so the
ear is to the mic on the opposite phone. That's what a crossover cable
in the Ethernet world does and, since you're on a Mac, it just does that
for you. So you can always just plug two machines Ethernet connections
together to set up an ad-hoc private fast network for flinging files and
the like. The Mac also is smart enough to self-assign an address when it
can't get one from a router, which is the case when you're direct
connecting two machines. So you basically plug the machines together
with some Cat5 cable, turn on file sharing and go.
CB
On 8/30/14, 7:09 AM, Christopher Hallsworth wrote:
Cool! I wonder if ethernet would work for the scenario where one needs
to share files between mac and PC using a PC laptop or desktop and not
say via Bootcamp or Fusion on the Mac. Over wifi it seems unreliable
to say the least.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 30/08/2014 08:52, M. Taylor wrote:
Hello Everyone,
As technology progresses, we sometimes forget that old and boring
technology
that got us to where we are today.
With that in mind, I want to share with you that with regards to
manipulating data on my home network, I pretty much stick to WiFi.
However, Today I needed to copy an enormous amount of data from a NAS
drive
to one of my computers. Slowly but surely I am removing all data from
NAS
for reasons described in prior threads.
So, as I began the copy process, I was told that it would take about 6
hours.
Then, I remembered that along with my new Mac, I purchased a
Thunderbolt to
Ethernet adaptor.
Using a wired connection, the same amount of data was transferred in
less
than 35 minutes.
So, no matter how much progress we make, let's remember and revere the
old-school style that came before as, in some cases, it's still going
strong.
Happily,
Mark
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