Airport transfer rates

fuzz_ballfuzz_ball
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
How long should it take to transfer about 132 MB over an Airport network?



I'm doing this right now and it is just craaawwling...so far only 8 MB transfered and it's saying it has about "an hour" to go

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    shetlineshetline Posts: 4,695member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by fuzz_ball

    How long should it take to transfer about 132 MB over an Airport network?



    I'm doing this right now and it is just craaawwling...so far only 8 MB transfered and it's saying it has about "an hour" to go



    With a good strong signal, Airport is rated at 11 Mbps. But a lot of that is framing, overhead, etc., so figure that you get half of that as real data payload.



    5.5 Mbps = 0.6875 MB/sec



    132 MB / (0.6875 MB/sec) = 192 sec = 3.2 minutes



    So, yes, something is going awfully damned slowly.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    fuzz_ballfuzz_ball Posts: 390member
    I'm a total Airport/network noob, so any suggestions anyone might have on what to look for would be helpful.



    Thanks!
  • Reply 3 of 3
    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by shetline

    With a good strong signal, Airport is rated at 11 Mbps. But a lot of that is framing, overhead, etc., so figure that you get half of that as real data payload.



    5.5 Mbps = 0.6875 MB/sec



    132 MB / (0.6875 MB/sec) = 192 sec = 3.2 minutes



    So, yes, something is going awfully damned slowly.



    Well i have read an article about this. In perfect conditions do not expect anything more than a quarter of the real data play load.

    It means 2,7 Mbps/sec max, 320 KB/Sec.



    So 6 minutes should be expected.

    There must be a problem somewhere.
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