[mdominic]

I bought a router and hooked up my cable modem, my Blue & White G3 OS 10.2.3 and my Biege G3 OS 9.2.2 and it takes 5 hours to tranfer 1 gig from one machine to another.

It was the same with a crossover cable.

What could be the problem?

Thanks

[SPiNdustrious]

What protocol did you use? What were you backing up?

The beige G3 only has a 10Mbit ethernet card so that can definitely put a stanglehold on your transfer rates. Used 100Mbit cards are cheap on eBay. While this upgrade won't necessarily speed up your internet access from the beige G3 (that depends on your connection of course...), it will dramatically speed up transfers on your LAN.

AppleTalk can sometimes be amazingly slow for file transfers. If you were backing up an OS X system over your network, the thousands of small files characteristic of UNIX systems can make the process take even longer. I'm not sure what's at play here. I am simply speaking from experience.

AFP is something of a legacy protocol these days. TCP/IP-based file transfers work better in my experience. Look at Carracho's (www.carracho.com) simple and fast client-server system for transfering things over your network.

Peter

[mdominic]

Thanks that answered my questions.

It is much faster if I upload to a Carracho server on the Biege. Than if I connect via Apple talk. I'm going to see if I can pick up a 10/100 fast card today.

Originally posted by SPiNdustrious:
What protocol did you use? What were you backing up?

The beige G3 only has a 10Mbit ethernet card so that can definitely put a stanglehold on your transfer rates. Used 100Mbit cards are cheap on eBay. While this upgrade won't necessarily speed up your internet access from the beige G3 (that depends on your connection of course...), it will dramatically speed up transfers on your LAN.

AppleTalk can sometimes be amazingly slow for file transfers. If you were backing up an OS X system over your network, the thousands of small files characteristic of UNIX systems can make the process take even longer. I'm not sure what's at play here. I am simply speaking from experience.

AFP is something of a legacy protocol these days. TCP/IP-based file transfers work better in my experience. Look at Carracho's (www.carracho.com) simple and fast client-server system for transfering things over your network.

Peter

[mdominic]

Thanks that answered my questions.

It is much faster if I upload to a Carracho server on the Biege. Than if I connect via Apple talk. I'm going to see if I can pick up a 10/100 fast card today.

Originally posted by SPiNdustrious:
What protocol did you use? What were you backing up?

The beige G3 only has a 10Mbit ethernet card so that can definitely put a stanglehold on your transfer rates. Used 100Mbit cards are cheap on eBay. While this upgrade won't necessarily speed up your internet access from the beige G3 (that depends on your connection of course...), it will dramatically speed up transfers on your LAN.

AppleTalk can sometimes be amazingly slow for file transfers. If you were backing up an OS X system over your network, the thousands of small files characteristic of UNIX systems can make the process take even longer. I'm not sure what's at play here. I am simply speaking from experience.

AFP is something of a legacy protocol these days. TCP/IP-based file transfers work better in my experience. Look at Carracho's (www.carracho.com) simple and fast client-server system for transfering things over your network.

Peter

[John Strung]

Try using TCP/IP file sharing instead of Appletalk. In the G3's File Sharing control panel, turn on the box for "enable IP file sharing". Then when you file share, do it by typing the other computer's IP address, not by double clicking on the server name in Chooser.