Apple AirPort Extreme questions?

HappyChappy84

I currently have a 4th gen AirPort Extreme connected by wire to this prehistoric piece of junk....

http://help.talktalk.co.uk/app/answers/detail/a_id/1614/kw/SmartAx%20MT882/r_id/113152

Although it's new as it hasn't been used until a few weeks ago.

I also have a Toshibe Stor.e 2 external HDD attached to the Airport. Sending files from the HDD to the MacBook Pro using N Wireless is quick enough but sending them back is seriously slow! Nowhere near the 300mbps the AirPort is capable of.

Also when syncing movies over WiFi to my iPad from my MacBook to my iPad 2 it takes a seriously long time, I'm quicker using a USB connection.

What is the best way to set this up as something doesn't seem right somewhere.

HappyChappy84

Anyone?.....

jayme1

it actually sound pretty on the money, wifi is stupidly slower than wired connection.

in the case of the router writing to the hard drive then in an ideal world it would get 300Mbit but chances are in the real world you are likely only getting 100Mbit or less, which means a direct write to the hard drive of only 12Mbyte which would also be bottlenecked by however fast the wifi to the usb bit of the router is.
you should expect reading files from the attached HDD would be quicker than writing to it.

the case is same with the ipad, apart from mobile devices have inferior wifi chipsets, (I know in the 4thgen ipod touch the maximum wifi speed I could get (on a 100MBit BB) was only 12.5MBit) I suspect the the ipad will be similar, meaning a real world write of 1.5MByte, compared to USB which is 480MBit theroretical but with a real world write of ~25MByte.

how are you syncing the files wirelessly on the ipad? jailbroaken or iOS5? though I don't think either way would change the speed.

pogofish

Are you set-up by using the basic hardware settings in windows, or was it installed with Talk Talk's bloatware?

I ask because I had exactly the same model and got a whopping speed increase after a disc failure/OS reinstall by getting the settings from TT's website and leaving the install disc in a drawer. Much better!

HappyChappy84

jayme1 wrote: »

it actually sound pretty on the money, wifi is stupidly slower than wired connection.

in the case of the router writing to the hard drive then in an ideal world it would get 300Mbit but chances are in the real world you are likely only getting 100Mbit or less, which means a direct write to the hard drive of only 12Mbyte which would also be bottlenecked by however fast the wifi to the usb bit of the router is.
you should expect reading files from the attached HDD would be quicker than writing to it.

the case is same with the ipad, apart from mobile devices have inferior wifi chipsets, (I know in the 4thgen ipod touch the maximum wifi speed I could get (on a 100MBit BB) was only 12.5MBit) I suspect the the ipad will be similar, meaning a real world write of 1.5MByte, compared to USB which is 480MBit theroretical but with a real world write of ~25MByte.

how are you syncing the files wirelessly on the ipad? jailbroaken or iOS5? though I don't think either way would change the speed.

I'm running iOS5 beta as a I have a friend who is a developer so he registered my device UDID for my iPad 2 and iPhone 4.

pogofish wrote: »

Are you set-up by using the basic hardware settings in windows, or was it installed with Talk Talk's bloatware?

I ask because I had exactly the same model and got a whopping speed increase after a disc failure/OS reinstall by getting the settings from TT's website and leaving the install disc in a drawer. Much better!

I received the modem from TT way back in 2004/5 and it lay in it's box under the bed until a few weeks ago. I could not for the life of me, get my Belkin modem/router to work with the AirPort so I dug out the TT router. All I did was plug it in and worked. I didn't install any of the software from the CD or from the TT website. I have a MacBook Pro and thought that the software on the CD wouldn't be compatible with Lion. I have asked on the TT forums and they have confirmed that everything is working perfectly with on their side of things.