pfs. As Angus said. Personal file sharing is the only way to go. J On Mar 5, 2006, at 6:32 PM, Angus Wallace wrote: > > G'day, > > my guess is as follows (without knowing the details of your hardware) > > Note - you need to be careful with the numbers. > 8Mbit/sec = 1Mbyte/sec = 1MB/sec > (From the numbers and the detail you've provided, I think your > units are > mbit/sec) > > There are two main bottlenecks on the speed of your internet > connection. The > first is at your connection to your ISP. This is around 6mbit/sec. > Then you > have a wireless bottleneck. That's limiting the speec further on > the other > machines. 802.11b has a theoretical maximum speed of 11mbit/sec. In > practice, > 4-5 mbit/sec is common, and varies a little with signal strength, > the card, and > the computer, which I think explains the variation between your other > computers. > > I've never shared files on a Mac (only in Linux), but I'd think it > would be as > simple as going in to System Prefs, and enabling Personal File > Sharing. Then > look on the network (from the other systems) for computers with > shared drives > (of course, you'll need to go into Get Info for the folders you > want to share, > and configure the preferences appropriately), and look at them. You > might need > to enter your password... > > HTH, > -Gus > > Quoting vwmai <vwmail at mindspring.com>: > >> Hi, >> >> We now are a three Apple family and all three computers are hooked up >> to the cable modem via a wireless router. The G4 is on the desk and >> connected via ethernet. The G3/233 iMac is connected via a Belklin >> USB >> wireless network adaptor and the iBook G3/900 has an original Airport >> 11b card. All the computers happily connect to the Internet. The >> wired >> G4 gets close to 6 megs, the Imac which is a brick wall and a few >> rooms >> away gets about 4 megs and the ibook at best is getting 3.2 megs even >> sitting next to the router. Not sure what's up there. Any thoughts? >> >> The bigger questing involves networking the machines together. I >> would >> like to share files between the computers. I don't really have a >> lot of >> experience doing this other than going machine to machine via >> ethernet >> crossover cable. Are there any web sites dedicated to all the ins and >> outs of networking Apple computers via a wireless system that include >> the nuts and bolts as well as security topics? If you have >> thoughts on >> it that you would like to share I would be interested in hearing >> those >> as well. >> >> Thanks >> Chris >> >> On Mar 5, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Jim Manley wrote: >> >>> Abandoned is the right word. They didn't even remove the movie >>> trailer >>> window from Sherlock. Using Apple music store to view trailers is a >>> fery slow & cumbersome process. >>> --- >>> James Paul Manley >>> Albuquerque, New Mexico >>> >>> Jim Manley's Photoshop Elements Page >>> http://www.geocities.com/jim_p_manley/index.html >>> >>> >>> On Mar 5, 2006, at 12:11 PM, Alan Thompson wrote: >>> >>>> or use a widget (such as marquee, for example). it seems to me >>>> that >>>> apple has abandoned sherlock. too bad they had to crush watson >>>> first. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> iBook mailing list >>> iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >>> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook >>> >>> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random >>> stuff: >>> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> iBook mailing list >> iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook >> >> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random >> stuff: >> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > iBook mailing list > iBook at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/ibook > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984