09-13-2010, 09:25 AM
olnacl wrote:
[quote=deckeda]
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.
In my experience, if your volume is already mounted, it takes a while to switch. So if you are airport only, mount a volume, and then plug in ethernet, it's going to continue to use airport until it has a reason to switch to ethernet (like you turning AP off.)
However, if you have both AP and ethernet connected before you mount any volumes on the server, it'll default to the setting in Sys Prefs.
This is anecdotal, I haven't tested and proven it, but I have the same issues and this seems to work for me.