Hey,
having "switched" (ugh, don't you just hate the word?
) little less than a year ago, I'm almost as happy as can be.
I say almost, because there are a few really nagging annoyances.
Network-browsing (via SMB/CIFS for instance) is painfully slow.
What used to take 2 - 3 seconds at most in Windows to display a remote folder with 300+ items in it now takes 10 - 20 seconds (let's not even mention doing a search based on filenames against remote shares..).
Note that this is being done between a iMac with a 100/10Mbps connection and a datacenter, where our machines are connected at 1Gbps.
Speeds aren't that much better between the datacenter and the office (with a gigabit pipe connecting them. . .).
In other words, something is remarkably worthless when it comes to either the CIFS/SMB implementation in OSX, or it's done remarkably well in Windows.
I've tried with and without the VPN (PPTP) client in OSX - the VPN is not the bottleneck.
I've tested throughput between the locations, and the slowest (home <-> datacenter) reaches roughly 9Mbps down, 20 - 30 Mbps up.
Actual latency isn't bad either, hovering between 1 - 4ms.
With that little bit of background, I'm trying to find a remote filesystem protocol that works *well* under OSX, the major caveat being that it has to work as a service under Windows Server 2003.
Suggestions, ideas, anything would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
/ r
having "switched" (ugh, don't you just hate the word?
) little less than a year ago, I'm almost as happy as can be.I say almost, because there are a few really nagging annoyances.
Network-browsing (via SMB/CIFS for instance) is painfully slow.
What used to take 2 - 3 seconds at most in Windows to display a remote folder with 300+ items in it now takes 10 - 20 seconds (let's not even mention doing a search based on filenames against remote shares..).
Note that this is being done between a iMac with a 100/10Mbps connection and a datacenter, where our machines are connected at 1Gbps.
Speeds aren't that much better between the datacenter and the office (with a gigabit pipe connecting them. . .).
In other words, something is remarkably worthless when it comes to either the CIFS/SMB implementation in OSX, or it's done remarkably well in Windows.
I've tried with and without the VPN (PPTP) client in OSX - the VPN is not the bottleneck.
I've tested throughput between the locations, and the slowest (home <-> datacenter) reaches roughly 9Mbps down, 20 - 30 Mbps up.
Actual latency isn't bad either, hovering between 1 - 4ms.
With that little bit of background, I'm trying to find a remote filesystem protocol that works *well* under OSX, the major caveat being that it has to work as a service under Windows Server 2003.
Suggestions, ideas, anything would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
/ r