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Name: shahrom
Date: July 3, 2000 at 10:51:15 Pacific
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Hi,

I am using the G4 Mac machine.My Os is 8.0. Recently I experienced a very slow file transfer across the network from another Mac machine. My network is running on a 10/100 BaseT. It tooks more than 2 hours to tranfer a 800MB file.

Can anything be done to beef up the transfering speed or is there anything wrong somewhere in the system or anything to do with the network.

I need some advised.

Regards.



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Name: lifekid
Date: July 10, 2000 at 23:20:18 Pacific
Reply:

update your OS!!!!

how did you get a G4 with 8.0???

also, check what OS the other
computer on your network is running.
file transfer started getting faster with (i
believe) OS 8.5 and up.


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Response Number 2
Name: ksd
Date: July 12, 2000 at 15:38:01 Pacific
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ditto on the G4 w/8.0

To go along with what lifekid said - Check the other systems on the network.
Ideally, all should be running the same OS (preferably 8.5 or higher).
Even a system running 9.0 can cause transfer speed problems if your running 8.0,
not to mention someone in the office who may still have 7.x on their machine!


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Response Number 3
Name: Kento
Date: April 12, 2001 at 22:55:50 Pacific
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What about OS9 with OS 8.6?

We've got 2 g4's with OS9 and 1 G3 with OS8.6.
They talk together just fine.
But although the G3 can talk to the rest of the Unix Network at a respectable speed...The OS9 G4's are C R A W L I N G...

Any Clues?


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