I have recently purchased a Western Digital My Book Live network attached storage hard drive connected to my router via ethernet (100Mbps). My MacBook Pro is connected to the device via airport (54Mbps).
I would like to check the actual connection speed between my MBP and Router (I'm aware it won't actually achieve 54Mbps!), and the speed my MBP is accessing the NAS drive.
So far I'm struggling with checking the MBP-Router speed - from googling people seem to say to ALT click the Airport menu bar item and then the Transmit Rate is in Mbps - however this says 54... which I don't believe.
For checking the speed of reading/writing to the network drive, the only method I've found is a program called "Blackmagic Disk Speed Test", which says I'm achieving a read/write speed of ~2.9/2.5 MBps (MB not Mb)
I'm hoping it's possible to achieve an improved speed and is hoping someone can help/provide some advice.
FYI: The WD MyBook Live software did not work (despite saying Mac compatible) so I've given the drive a static IP (all other devices are dynamic IPs) and am accessing it via Finder>Connect to server> afp://192.168.1.175 and then selecting the appropriate volume
Also, my MBP is running OSX 10.6.8
I would like to check the actual connection speed between my MBP and Router (I'm aware it won't actually achieve 54Mbps!), and the speed my MBP is accessing the NAS drive.
So far I'm struggling with checking the MBP-Router speed - from googling people seem to say to ALT click the Airport menu bar item and then the Transmit Rate is in Mbps - however this says 54... which I don't believe.
For checking the speed of reading/writing to the network drive, the only method I've found is a program called "Blackmagic Disk Speed Test", which says I'm achieving a read/write speed of ~2.9/2.5 MBps (MB not Mb)
I'm hoping it's possible to achieve an improved speed and is hoping someone can help/provide some advice.
FYI: The WD MyBook Live software did not work (despite saying Mac compatible) so I've given the drive a static IP (all other devices are dynamic IPs) and am accessing it via Finder>Connect to server> afp://192.168.1.175 and then selecting the appropriate volume
Also, my MBP is running OSX 10.6.8