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I have two machines at home - One is a macbook with Express and the other is a Power Mac G4 with Airport
I ve seen probalmes with the speed of download on the G4 - I was intending to use it as a download box / web server , but things take a lot lot longer on the G4 then n the macbook
Examplpe downloading simple torrent was finished in twenty minutes on macbook but is still running on the G4 .
Anyone know whats the likely cause?
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First, the Macbook has Airport Extreme. Airport Express is the name of Apple's smallish base station.
As for the speed differences, I can only think of two things:
1. The G4 is simply a slower machine and there is nothing you can do about that.
2. The G4's location is causing a weaker connection to the base station. You can move the machine to a better location or relocate the base station. Even better would be to wire the G4 to the base station, if possible.
Chris
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This, being an entirely networking oriented issue, belongs in the Networking forum. So there it goes!
I may be off base, since you didn't post WHICH version of the Power Mac you have (there are a number of G4 Power Macs), but I'll bet that machine has an original AirPort card in it. The original card is an IEEE 802.11B device-its maximum theoretical data speed is 11Mbps (11 megaBITS per second, or 1.375 megaBYTES per second). AirPort Extreme is an iEEE 802.11G device (with backward compatibility for 802.11B) that has a maximum theoretical speed of 54Mbps. BIG difference, no?
Anyway, I think chabig's solution of wiring the Power Mac to your base station is the best option, because wired ethernet has a maximum theoretical data rate of 100Mbps, almost twice the theoretical max of a G wireless system, and it has much less overhead to eat up your theoretical bandwidth too.
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Thanks ghporter. I forgot to mention that 802.11b is inherently slower than 802.11g.
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Ok, the 802.11b is much slower than its g cousin, but even Comcast fiberoptics cable is only giving me 5-6 Mbps/sec., half of the airport card's speed. I wonder about the operating systems, is the G4 using Jaguar or Panther versus Tiger, and about the bus speeds, the G4 could be slower just as its IDE HD interface is slower than the MB's serial one. But try the hardwire and see,, internet cable is cheap.
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The original post is regarding torrents. Two big things with torrents: 1) your speed is luck. Sometimes you might connect to someone on dialup, sometimes you might connect to someone on a college campus with superbandwidth. 2) Map your ports. If the BT port is mapped to one of the machines and not the other, the one with mapped ports will is a gigantic increase in download speeds. This should help you download linux distro's off bittorrent ;-)
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