I don't know if anyone else has experienced this. I have a PBG4, so I use it at home with a cable modem and at work with a DSL. Then one day at work I needed to use my iDisk with my Windows machine (I was installing software on my powerbook at the time), and it was really really fast. Faster than my mac on the same internet connection.

Does anyone know why this is? Know any way to speed up my mac's connection to idisk, or a different way to connect to it that is faster. I don't want to have to admit that my dell at work does something better than my mac.

It is good to know that iDisk isn't painfully slow just for me. I sure it was faster too.

Sounds like you found your "faster way". Dude, I'm gettin a Dell !

hahaha

Not!

Welcome to file sharing on a mac. it is extremely slow. there is no hack I know of for this. complain to apple. Do it for yourself, do it for me, and dor it for the rest of the mac community!

Thanks!!!!!!

the operating system has just nothing to do
with the speed of filetransfers BK
and now go in your room and finish your homework

iDisk has simply been terribly slow over the past few weeks - to the point of being unusable for uploads and downloads.

The WebDAV communication protocol (that the windoze boxes use to access iDisk) require separate iDisk border servers to make that type of connection to the iDisk main storage. There are FAAAAAaaaaaar fewer people trying to access iDisk on a Pee Cee than on Macs - ergo, you are connecting to 'wide-open' servers that aren't bogged down when you access iDisk via pee cee. Conversely, when you access it on a Mac (as MOST do), you are on the servers that are getting 'clogged' with requests for access (almost like unintended DOS attacks), hence your access is slower on your Mac until they add more servers.

PS - it's usually quite good access at 3:30 am (chuckle)
:-P

As for the comment above regarding file sharing on a Mac being slow, I guess I really don't see any substantiative evidence for that......unless you are trying to do it over a serial cable. But that's not the Mac's fault, that's user error for not doing it over Cat 5 or Firewire (<--which is hoooooaarking fast !).

I have not noticed a great degree of difference in P2P filesharing speeds between Mac & PC. It generally depends on the pipeline that you are trying to run the data through and how fast IT can transfer your file data, rather than the platform you are doing it on. I won't claim that they are both the same, but they are pretty close as far as my experience has been.

true TS except that it is wrong to blame the user for not having the same capacity as you do, to connect to the net..

My comment was in reference to BK's (above).

I'm a Little confused too. I never blamed anyone for not being able to connect to the net. As a matter of fact, my whole post about filesharing speeds doesn't mention or even imply anything regarding net connections....just P2P connections. While you CAN do those over the net, I was mainly refering to in person P2P's as this logically would rule out the biasing of modem and ISP bandwidth considerations. And hence, be the only accurate way to compare Mac to PC filesharing speeds.

Maybe the CAT5 reference was confusing to some who aren't familiar with it, but CAT5 is a type of ethernet cable (100baseT capable to be exact) - not internet access.

Yeah... file sharing isn't that slow over the Cat 5 cables at my house (2 macs (hopefully soon to be 3) and two machines that my dad runs NetBSD on). It's just really slow when I try to connect to any other Mac (it uses my internet connection which is extremely slow).
Sorry if I confused anyone (I know I'm a bit confused now).

Has anyone tried connecting to an iDisk through VirtualPC?