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Old July 3rd, 2004
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I'm scratching my head over download rates and verification times: looks like Pro is way faster than Basic or ACQX on ethernet transfers:

I installed various versions (only one at a time) on the G4 iMac and downloaded a 699 MB .avi file with the G3 iBook running Pro. Basic and ACQX were way slower than Pro, and verification time seemed high--5 minutes and 29 seconds. Both machines had upload and download bandwidth prefs set to "unlimited."

As a quick comparison, a Finder transfer of the file between the machines took 2 minutes and 20 seconds--that's almost half as long as it took LW to verify the file.

Excluding the verification time which was the same, Pro served up the file in ~ 8 or 9 minutes ; ACQX 36 mins, and Basic 28. Too much difference, no?

Anyway, here are the numbers that showed in tooltips, and my best guess as to actual transfer rates if verification time subtracted.

LW 4.1.1 (Pro) 14:43 (1,408 KB/s) = 1,273 KB/s
ACQX 110.3 41:04 (379 KB/s) = 334 KB/s
LW 4.1.1 (Basic) 32:07 (486 KB/s) = 446 KB/s
LW 4.1.1 (Pro) 13:48 (1,520 KB/s) =1,410 KB/s
FINDER 2:29 =4,810 KB/s

Is this a stats display problem? Free throtting? Luser error?

Last edited by stief; July 3rd, 2004 at 07:28 PM.