It takes more than a minute to transfer 100k to iTools over my DSL modem. This makes it almost useless. Does anyone else see these insanly slow speeds?

[pdjr]

I, too, experience very slow speeds with my cable modem. Sometimes it's zippy; sometimes it's too slow for my liking. It makes me wish I hadn't paid for the extra storage space. =(

[Sebastien]

I don't find it very fast either (cable). I mainly use it for daily backup of a few files, but I find it exteremely slow at connecting/updating windows.

[wulf]

"It takes more than a minute to transfer 100k to iTools over my DSL modem. This makes it almost useless. Does anyone else see these insanly slow speeds?"


Yes. I think the DL speed from the mac.com servers must be "choked" (or whatever the IT expression is) to something like a maximum speed for 56k modem.

Where I work in the UK we have a leased line which must be at least 128K, I have often used iDisk as a test area and have never ever seen an UL or DL speed in excess of 6kbits (usually 3-4)...

...which is pretty rubbish really -- in my experience most free web hosting will get you at least ISDN/ADSL friendly speeds...

And when you consider that Apple want to promote DV/iMovie/QT streaming etc., it starts to look a bit counter-productive really...

[mac freak]

Slow as hell for me.

iMac 350/1.5 MBPS cable line

Thank god I didn't buy extra space!

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[oscar]

Originally posted by wulf:
[B]"It takes more than a minute to transfer 100k to iTools over my DSL modem. This makes it almost useless. Does anyone else see these insanly slow speeds?"


Yes. I think the DL speed from the mac.com servers must be "choked" (or whatever the IT expression is) to something like a maximum speed for 56k modem.
B]

I think the correct term might be throttled


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