I have a Time Capsule, not the newest version with the dual band radio, but whatever version was current at the beginning of 2009. The problem I'm having with it is that transfers to and from the internal TC drive are very slow. Before you suggest troubleshooting my network though, I should point out that
a) Transfers between different computers on the TC's network are much faster than transfers to the TC's internal drive
b) The slow performance occurs whether I use wireless or ethernet to connect with the TC, so it doesn't seem to be a Wifi issue.
The TC is the only router on the network. Here are some numbers I get. I have the TC's wifi configured to use 5 GHz N only.
Has anyone else seen this behavior with their TC, where transfers between computers go much faster than transfers with the TC itself? It seems to me that if anything, transfers with the TC itself should go faster than transfers with another computer on the network with the TC.
a) Transfers between different computers on the TC's network are much faster than transfers to the TC's internal drive
b) The slow performance occurs whether I use wireless or ethernet to connect with the TC, so it doesn't seem to be a Wifi issue.
The TC is the only router on the network. Here are some numbers I get. I have the TC's wifi configured to use 5 GHz N only.
- Transfers between two Macs connected via wifi go at around 6 MB/sec
- If one Mac is connected via ethernet and the other is connected via WiFi, then transfers between the two Macs go at around 12 MB/sec
- Transfers to or from the TC's internal drive go at around 0.2 MB/sec, sometimes going as high as 1.2 MB/sec! This is true whether I'm connect to the TC via WiFi or Ethernet.
- I tried connecting an external drive to the TC via USB, and I get the same performance as transfering to the TC's internal drive, so it doesn't seem to be caused by a problem with the TC's internal drive itself.
Has anyone else seen this behavior with their TC, where transfers between computers go much faster than transfers with the TC itself? It seems to me that if anything, transfers with the TC itself should go faster than transfers with another computer on the network with the TC.