While the Time Machine backup was running, I decided to see if I could get away with switching to the ethernet cable. For this to work I manually set the Ethernet IP address to the same address the Airport Extreme card had received from the DHCP server in the Airport Extreme Base Station. Once the IP address was set, the order of "services" had to be set by clicking the gear button at the bottom and the Ethernet service needed to be dragged up above the Airport service, then I plugged in the Ethernet Cable, then turned off WiFi. The backup sped up and is done already.
Ethernet on my 10/100 Mbit AEBS was about 4 times the speed of WiFi through the walls. Well, walls and a ton of equipment on shelves and on the desk. So my office is WiFi hostile :-)
I'm just guessing, but I think my 60 Gig backup would have taken about 4 hours if I started with my MBP connected via Ethernet in the first place.
And with eSATA it used to be about 1 Gig per minute, so it would have only been 1 hr with the fastest direct HDD connection available. Of course, that's also dependent on the speed of the internal HDD where the data is coming from.
Able
P. S. I wrote the blog post while the backup was already going, so before you ask, no, it wasn't "that fast" based on post time and comment time.
Leopard Networking is still Awesome
While the Time Machine backup was running, I decided to see if I could get away with switching to the ethernet cable. For this to work I manually set the Ethernet IP address to the same address the Airport Extreme card had received from the DHCP server in the Airport Extreme Base Station. Once the IP address was set, the order of "services" had to be set by clicking the gear button at the bottom and the Ethernet service needed to be dragged up above the Airport service, then I plugged in the Ethernet Cable, then turned off WiFi. The backup sped up and is done already.
Ethernet on my 10/100 Mbit AEBS was about 4 times the speed of WiFi through the walls. Well, walls and a ton of equipment on shelves and on the desk. So my office is WiFi hostile :-)
I'm just guessing, but I think my 60 Gig backup would have taken about 4 hours if I started with my MBP connected via Ethernet in the first place.
And with eSATA it used to be about 1 Gig per minute, so it would have only been 1 hr with the fastest direct HDD connection available. Of course, that's also dependent on the speed of the internal HDD where the data is coming from.
Able
P. S. I wrote the blog post while the backup was already going, so before you ask, no, it wasn't "that fast" based on post time and comment time.