The recent addition of Bandwidth Tuner V1.0 to support higher networking configs adds fuel to this exciting fire...

Very good point. I love that tuner thing though. AMAZING

A Tb/Month is great but they need to improve the transfer rate or it won't be much use. I'm currently moving a folder with 29Mb of stuff to my iDisk documents folder and it's taking 15-20 minutes. This is on broadband at home but I get the same mediocre transfer rate over the 100 Base-T at work and over high speed wireless on campus. OS 10.4, plenty of memory, 1.25Ghz Macs etc. I've seen similar complaints from all over on the Apple Tech forums.

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geoduck wrote:
A Tb/Month is great but they need to improve the transfer rate or it won't be much use. I'm currently moving a folder with 29Mb of stuff to my iDisk documents folder and it's taking 15-20 minutes. This is on broadband at home but I get the same mediocre transfer rate over the 100 Base-T at work and over high speed wireless on campus. OS 10.4, plenty of memory, 1.25Ghz Macs etc. I've seen similar complaints from all over on the Apple Tech forums.

Honestly, I think this has to do with your upstream bandwidth available to you, and not dotMac. I upload a *lot* of stuff to my .Mac account -- usually large files, .Mac Backups, etc. -- and it almost *always* goes at the top speed of my upstream connection. My Comcast connection here affords me 768kbps upstream, and that's what I upload to .Mac (I'm in New Hampshire, if it makes any difference).

Check http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ to confirm your upstream. Try a couple of different points of presence to find the one that works fastest for you in order to get an accurate test.

-Dave

--
TMO co-Founder, President, and co-host of the Mac Geek Gab Podcast
http://www.macobserver.com/podcast/

yep

of course then again, you are all using MACs...often called the idiot box because all one has to do is turn it on...it thikns for you...doesn't let you do everything...oh yeah, and they are about 2-3 times as much as a pc...

And don't get me started on the ipod...very good idea, but there are so many better and less expensive options..."IPOD, the opiate fpor the masses"

that's what you get for using .whac

My guess is that the sudden swarm of "Mac is teh sux0r" posts are a result of being linked by the good folks at fark.com.

Even when the topic is somewhat mundane, the flamewars can get pretty impressive. Be sure to check out the fun here

Ha, good point, John.

A big welcome to our Fark.com visitors!

Remember fark.com, it will soon bonkzor your internets.

Mac is teh sux0r

/had to do it
//Manneke
///slashies!

OS flamewars.. so retro, they remind me of the 20th century.

M4C 15 t3H 5uxx0rz

up the mac minis. ;-;

Cool!

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Dave wrote:
Honestly, I think this has to do with your upstream bandwidth available to you, and not dotMac.

I'll check out the speedtest site it should be interesting.

The thing is, I see the same doggy speed with different macs and different networks; G4-DP at home running on Comcast cable, G4-PB on the road connecting to both wired and wireless networks, G5 iMac at work on a Gb Ethernet connection limited to 100 Mb by the card in the iMac. The only common part has been the iDisk.

But it'll be interesting to check out the actual upload speeds. I'm also going to try connecting to other on-line file servers and for comparison.

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geoduck wrote:
I get the same mediocre transfer rate over the 100 Base-T at work and over high speed wireless on campus.

Um... if you honestly think you're getting 100Mb out to the 'Net at work, you're beyond help. Most businesses, unless doing major data traffic, only have a few Mb connection. And campus networks are a joke. Most are throttled on student accessible segments...

Upgrade your crappy DSL connection with 128K upload and stop whining.

Mac blows.

Ipods are sexy, macs are teh sux0r

Thank you
Noeljb

"at work on a Gb Ethernet connection"

You may be connected by Gb ethernet to a local network, that does NOT mean you have Gb connection to the internet.
An OC-3 - 155 megabits per second (100 T1s) connection to the internet would cost around $45,000./mo.
Most businesses have a T1 - T3 connection at most (unless the business is hosting, or something that required above average levels of bandwidth) at T1 is around $500 a month, a T3 is around $10,000-15,000 a month. The bandwidth for a T1 is only 1.5 Mb a second, a T3 43 Mb.

And I can remember getting a smaller slide rule cause it was faster. (less distance to slide to get to the answers)

Dmn Don't I feel old
Noeljb

If you're right Steve Jobs will sue you.

tsia
stfu NOOBZOR

Ip0wned!!!!!!!!!!!
3geez in da house

it's true

It's me Cheese!

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Which blow away their IBM-PC counterparts. My lisa has a great GUI, try to get the ease of use out of your XT! Very unlikely.

ohhh no

Yes, macs suck.

teh mac iz da suxors hah u noob

teh mac iz da suxors hah u noob

Suxors

I keep hearing all this talk about macintosh but who is he and what did he accomplish. My chiropractor's last name is McIntosh so it can't be him...

If you make a computer easy enough for idiots to use...
...Only idiots will want to use it.

notice the IQ level in this room went down after all the farkers appeared? emulation of 23-year-old male brains is teh key to farkdom. that, & blowing $ to be a paying member.

don't be discouraged by this. the site actually is quite funny. the comedians save their hilarity for the headlines & postings. not so much flamewars ... everybody's nice & civil. & pretty farking funny, all macobserver.com posts to the contrary!