Airport Base Station + Disk

[semaja2]

I just recently got the ABE and my first impressions were good, until now....

This is absolutely horrible at use with disks, i have 2 harddrives connected to the ABE along with a printer on a small USB hub.

When ever i connect to the ABE and access the disks im able to view videos and such fine aslong as i dont copy the file to my iMac, as soon as i try to copy finder basically just sits there and never copies the file its that slow.

I have tried using both cable and wireless with no luck. I have used the same setup but hooking directly to my iMac and it worked great, so why so bad on the ABE?

 

[zioxide]

USB is a processor-intensive thing, and the router has a tiny processor so it takes forever. In addition, wireless is pretty slow and you usually only get speeds of less than 5 megabytes per second. All of this adds up to it being pretty slow.

 

[semaja2]

This is not just slow, its UNBEARABLE, if apple was intending to sell such a product then they are idiots, ive used NAS before and they are not 0.1mbps EVER

 

[micsaund]

I had to return my AEX because the airdisk was, well, it sucked -- at least for multiple large (multi-GB) files and thousands of files (during rsync backup).

I didn't see "unbearable" speeds as you are describing though, so maybe you got a bad unit. Mine would just lock-up and require a hard power cycle when the disks and wireless network disappeared as it entered some kind of Xtreme never-never-land.

Are you running the 7.1.1 firmware, which supposedly fixes airdisk issues? If not, try upgrading it and please report back if it fixed anything.

Mike

 

[superted666]

works fine on mine, two 400gb disks connected, i transfer files between macbook and airport at 3.5mpbs easily (was hoping faster but its not that slow)

I am running in n mode at 5ghz though, which speed are you connected at?

 

[semaja2]

Ive worked it out, and i cant believe i didnt think of it earlier... its seems my USB hub doesnt like the ABE, but my iMac does :S

 

[dmaxdmax]

How can I tell what speed I'm getting?
Thx