I´m using a hub to connect our two Macs (an iMac G4 and a Powerbook Pismo) to the net, but I´ve found that transferring files from the Powerbook to the iMac takes forever.
Therefore, I decided to disconnect the hub from the net (to make sure my traffic wasn´t first going out on the net, then back to the iMac) and just run a configuration looking like this:
Powerbook < = > W Linx Hub 10/100 < = > iMac
Transferring files from the PB to the iMac, as I said, is very slow (a 650MB file was estimated to 15 minutes, but would probably end up taking longer).
However, going the other way, that is transferring a file from the iMac to the PB, works like a charm! A 850MB file was estimated to use under a minute from the iMac to the PB.
Why is this?
Both machines run OS X 10.2.6, and both transfers are initiated through afp.
My Powerbook has a faulty Ethernet port, so I´m using a PCMCIA Ethernet card with a RealTek chip set as a replacement. Could that be an issue in some way?
The reading of ifconfig en1 looks like this:
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULT ICAST> mtu 1500
________inet6 fe80::210:60ff:fe74:2136%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
________inet 10.0.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
________ether 00:10:60:74:21:36
________media: autoselect (100baseTX <half-duplex>) status: active
________supported media: autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex>
Any help greatly appreciated.
Should I get a switch...or?
/Øivind/
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