[jarcoal]

I have been trying to share files between my mac and pc (both with gigabit ethernet), and 90% of the time it transfers at about 300k/sec, and the other 10% of the time it boosts up and starts transferring at about 15-20 megs/sec. obviously it should be transferring at the latter speeds all the time, what gives?

Note: Mac is Powerbook G4 Ti 1 ghz 1 gig ram. PC is P4 2.8 ghz with 768 ram.

Thanks.

[mpancha]

how are you transferring the files?

Samba share (windows file sharing in system prefs) or FTP?

and how much data are you transferring.

last time I did a huge file transfer between my iBook and PC (on 100 Mbit connection) it too about 30 minutes to transfer 15 gig of data

[jarcoal]

i'm using samba, and it's about 25 gigs. although i turned off the firewall on my pc and that has helped. now about 80% of the time it's going 15-20megs/sec and occasionally dropping down to 150-300k/sec for a few minutes.

[mpancha]

that makes no sense to have such low speeds.... I've been using the Samba sharing since it appeared in 10.0 and its only gotten faster as OS X progressed.

This may seem like a dumb question, but have you tried another cable, and are they connected directly?