what transfer rate should I be getting?

[davidwarren]

I have an all n network, aebs, macbook, imac and atv, setup as 5gHz n-only. Network utility shows my link speed as 300Mbit/s, however, I am transferring a large (about 7 gig) file from my macbook to my imac, and my output on iStat only shows 5MB/s at the max. I understand there is a difference from megabyte and megabit, but shouldn't my transfer rate be somewhat higher?

[samh004]

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That's actually really good and about right, I get about 2MB/s but I have a mixed network on 2.4GHz.

[davidwarren]

really? for some reason I thought it would be much higher...

[samh004]

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It's the whole megabyte and megabit issue, plus associated bottle necks on both machines. It is faster than you'd get on 802.11g or even b though ;)