Never Underestimate the Power of Ethernet
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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Never Underestimate the Power of Ethernet
I have to say, I still prefer a wired connection. The ethernet protocol, or the entire CSMACD concept is an integral part of the modern methods - wi'fi, bluetooth, USB; it's the only way all the devices share the medium. Rh. - Original Message - From: "M. Taylor" To: Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2014 8:52 AM Subject: Never Underestimate the Power of Ethernet 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Never Underestimate the Power of Ethernet
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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Never Underestimate the Power of Ethernet
You can get a dedicated rj45 lead, with a cross-over between two particular wires; but you can plug computers back-to-back if you fiddle with the right settings on each pc. You have to enable a server mode and allowed protocols; not done for too long, so can't be more specific. But between PC's, what's wrong with a good old fashioned pen drive, memory stick, or whatever else they're called now. Rh. - Original Message - From: "Christopher Hallsworth" To: Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2014 12:09 PM Subject: Re: Never Underestimate the Power of Ethernet 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 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Never Underestimate the Power of Ethernet
Nothing really. It was just an idea to share files across the local network over wifi. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 30/08/2014 14:55, BobH. wrote: You can get a dedicated rj45 lead, with a cross-over between two particular wires; but you can plug computers back-to-back if you fiddle with the right settings on each pc. You have to enable a server mode and allowed protocols; not done for too long, so can't be more specific. But between PC's, what's wrong with a good old fashioned pen drive, memory stick, or whatever else they're called now. Rh. - Original Message - From: "Christopher Hallsworth" To: Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2014 12:09 PM Subject: Re: Never Underestimate the Power of Ethernet 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Never Underestimate the Power of Ethernet
Quite. This should go some way to explaining why every device on my network that can be connected using Ethernet, is connected using Ethernet; in practice this means only the iOS devices are not. I had to get a hole drilled through the walls, feed cat5e cable through, and installed gigabit switches at either end. Because Wi-Fi just doesn't cut it. Even when it's 802.11AC. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Never Underestimate the Power of Ethernet
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 -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
