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Airport Disk - 8hrs to copy a 1.8GB file. Seriously?!
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backups are normally slow over wireless unless you are using 802.11n. if you want to speed things up try using an ethernet (RJ-45) cable
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wireless N claims to have more range than wireless G but personally I tested the top of the line Linksys, Apple and D-Link routers all their simultaneous dual band models and my linksys wrt54gl was at least as good and often better than any of them. The N routers were especially bad if there were any walls in the way. In fact unless I was in the same room as the router the speed was horrible, a few rooms away in my bedroom the speed of the WRT54gl was actually often faster lol. I bought the linksys router to stream video to a media center extender (also linksys) and the bandwidth of the N routers was not good enough to do it unless the router was directly beside the extender...so I decided to use an Xbox and just hook it up with ethernet instead lol
wireless N claims to have more range than wireless G but personally I tested the top of the line Linksys, Apple and D-Link routers all their simultaneous dual band models and my linksys wrt54gl was at least as good and often better than any of them. The N routers were especially bad if there were any walls in the way. In fact unless I was in the same room as the router the speed was horrible, a few rooms away in my bedroom the speed of the WRT54gl was actually often faster lol. I bought the linksys router to stream video to a media center extender (also linksys) and the bandwidth of the N routers was not good enough to do it unless the router was directly beside the extender...so I decided to use an Xbox and just hook it up with ethernet instead lol