thanks luke, it helped a bit to turn off appletalk.. still really slow though. other ideas welcomed. david On Mar 29, 2004, at 8:43 PM, luke wrote: > > On Monday, March 29, 2004, at 09:40 AM, David DelMonte wrote: > >> Hi all. I have an airport extreme connecting my G4 to a PB 17". >> >> I get great internet speeds but awful file transfer speed (40mb = >> 30min). >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks > > i have found that leaving Appletalk turned on seems to drastically > slow my network down. > > also i heard somewhere that it can take up to two minutes for the > network/filesharing to stabilize a newer connection... > > while i do not know for sure about the stabilizing idea, i have > noticed that every once in a while while trying to immediately > transfer across a newly connected share i get very poor speeds > initially... sometimes like .5MB/s and much slower... > > but this never seems to happen on connections that have been already > open for a while. >