[businezguy]

Well, I have a Powermac and an iBook. Basically my Powermac is pretty much my gaming machine and my file server. I use my iBook for all of the day-to-day tasks since it's so convenient and allows me to get comfortable.

So, I have an Emusic account and I download a lot of songs from my iBook. After I'm finished, I transfer them over to my Powermac. This are both running Airport. Well, it takes about 1 hour to transfer 1 gig of music.

I definately which I could get Airport Extreme on both of these machines.

[Timo]

You could do firewire in target disk mode for the heavy file transfers...

[dreilly1]

You know, just because you have AirPort, doesn't mean that you can't use a small wired network for large file transfers.

In fact, all you really need is a single ethernet cable. Both computers, if they're recent, have autosensing 10/100 ethernet ports, so you can connect the two computers directly. Once you set up the network once, you can save it in the location manager, along with the AirPort settings in a different location. When you want to fast file transfers, just set both computers to use the wired settings. When you're done, switch back to wireless settings.

You can also get 10/100 hubs cheap now, and set up your network so that you can keep both computers on the Internet while your wired connection is running.

Yeah, you lose the mobility of AirPort for a little while, but you can make the transfer in a fraction of the time, pretty much only limited by the speed of the disk in the iBook (which I suspect is the slower one...)

[Angus_D]

Yeah, or you could just use IP over FireWire, as most people have firewire cables lying about these days.

[LeeG]

I have an extra cable running out of my router onto my desk, and I plug my tiBook into the wired network for heavy transfers, all other stuff is done over airport (802.11b). Wired is still faster than airport extreme...


Lee