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I have a MBP with AP active but also connected to my router by an ethernet cable. In Network Prefs, Ethernet is the top choice with AP second. Transferring a 8 GB group of files, the ETA was 16 minutes and when I checked iStat, it was moving across AP. I disabled AP and the transfer ETA almost immediately dropped to 5 minutes. Re-enabling AP didn't change anything and the transfer completed quickly.
The only thing I can think of is that I took the MBP into the living room a few hours before, and sent an email over AP, then returned the machine to my desk and reconnected the Ethernet cable. I would expect it to revert to back Ethernet, since that's the top choice, but apparently it doesn't. Normal behavior?
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If both are available at the same time, it tries the top choice first.
If only one is available and it's not the top choice, it must pick it.
It'll stick with whatever it connects to even if another, better choice becomes available.
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deckeda wrote:
It'll stick with whatever it connects to even if another, better choice becomes available.
OK. That was my observation, so I guess it's normal behavior but a PITA to have to turn off AP every time I reconnect it to the hard wire network. Maybe an applescript or keyboard maestro macro is in order. Or I'll just use the MB that lives in another room and is always on AP instead. I do like the backlit KB on the MBP for couch surfing though…
Que sera.
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can you set up 2 network Locations and just switch between them?
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The thing is, simply going to the menubar and turning off Airport is far faster than invoking any script that does the same thing, or switching locations. Turn it off and it'll use Ethernet. Unplug the Ethernet and turn on Airport.
Regardless, you won't be able to switch "on the fly" by any method I'm aware of while a transfer is in progress. Same holds true for anything that's connected via file sharing (2 or more computers, or two copies of iTunes on different machines etc.) they'l stop talking to each other and will have to be quit/reinitiated.
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deckeda wrote:
The thing is, simply going to the menubar and turning off Airport is far faster than invoking any script that does the same thing, or switching locations. Turn it off and it'll use Ethernet. Unplug the Ethernet and turn on Airport.
:agree:Agreed
deckeda wrote:
Regardless, you won't be able to switch "on the fly" by any method I'm aware of while a transfer is in progress. Same holds true for anything that's connected via file sharing (2 or more computers, or two copies of iTunes on different machines etc.) they'l stop talking to each other and will have to be quit/reinitiated.
Not sure on this one. I had both AP and hard wire connected. Both appeared active in the network prefs. A file transfer
was in progress. I turned AP off and the file transfer continued without apparent interruption but at the above mentioned much faster transfer speed to completion. I opened each of the five files that were in the process of transferring without error. I can't do a binary compare as the files were moved rather than copied and thus deleted from the source upon completion. I may just try that scenario again with a copy command and then look for errors between the original and copy, but not today - I have a frozen shut-off valve in a friend's bathroom that needs attention - her catz turned on the water in the bathroom sink and managed to flood the bathroom. She wants the water turned off at the valve beneath the sink and that's what's frozen.
Earlier today I had to take my air compressor to another friend's house and blow out the A/C condensate drain, but that's another story…
