09-12-2010, 06:33 PM
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…