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Speed up network between OS X and Windows XP
Authored by: doneitner on Mar 14, '05 10:35:33PM

I actually have a slightly backward version of this problem between OSX 10.3.8 and WinXP over a 100Mbps network. If I initiate a file transfer from the OSX box to copy a file from the WinXP box, I get decent speed (about 9MB/s). If I initiate the same file transfer (Win-to-Mac) from the WinXP box, I get pitifully slow rates.

I just assumed it was yet another further different MS tactic -- to convince users to not move their files off their PCs by throttling the network to non-Windows systems. It certainly wouldn't be the first time they'd done something like that. The fact that i get much better rates when initiating the transfer from MacOS would seem to bare this out, but yeah it could be just a bug. ;)



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