Poor Transfer Speed

I just got my new g3 ipod and i tried it at first on my audigy firewire connection, from the word go there was problems nothing seamed to work right. I managed to get 1 album across at about 2mb/s and most others crashed. I thought it could be a problem with the ipod its self. But my dad was able to get me a firewire card for ?12, so i bung that in and it worked perfectly straight away. I transfered 30 albums and a smove 7-8 mb/s with 0 problems now everything works great. I will never ever ever buy a 'creative' made product again. And yes i can set the firewire and sound card up correctly as i have built computers for a company before so i know what im doing (just for the some who may try and tell me i havnet set up the audigy correctly).
So my advise would be to try ur connection on someones elses firewire port or buy a new card first :D

I have a similar problem, but with my gen2 20gb connected through an adaptec fireconnect cardbus card. i only get 1.5ish mb/s transfer.

Anyone have tips on how to make it go faster?

I already have it on 4096 and everything. I am very dissapointed with the card (PCMCIA card if it makes a difference), and EphPod still only gives 1-1.5mb/s transfer. I Use windows xp pro, have 384mb ram and enough of everything i beleve. Still cant figure out why it is so slow through firewire.

thanks for your try tho.

After trying just about everything I could think of, I reinstalled the VIA PCI latency patch (http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/) on this machine (hadn't bothered before for some reason) and all is well. Back up to 6.5-7.5MB/s transfers within ephpod and no other issues. :)

If you are using a VIA KT133 (or any VIA) chipset, use a creative sound card and have any kind of problem with crackling and/or slow transfer rates through firewire/USB/hard drive I HIGHLY recommend this patch, it fixes all of these kinds of problems.

I'm so glad I don't have a VIA based motherboard anymore. That sound crackling mess really stunk!

well just looked, its not my hd, its a 7400rpm disk, and i get great transfer from a digital camera trhough my firewire card (adaptec notebook fireconnect card).

I know its most likely not the ipod, so i put my money on some settings. Does anyone know how to set it perfectly with this setup, ie for the best speed? Ive been told that my card is the best out there for notebooks, yet i still only get 1.5mb/s from my ipod with ephpod. Does another program run faster? If so which?

Thanks for your help.

Originally posted by Welshie
Now all I have to do is figure out how to get my European iPod up to US volume levels and I'll be sorted :confused:

Just use the american updater and it will replace the bios with a non-nanny version :) The bios revision is .1 lower but I don't believe that there is any additional functionality to the euro version.

1st thing I did :)

Pac3r

@welshie

Not sure, mine is a 10Gig touchwheel model.

I can't see why it wouldn't work but from what I understand of the new updater you would have to do a restore which will destroy any songs on the ipod.

Perhaps someone else can confirm.

The updater should be downloaded from the Apple site. That way if it went wrong you would have plausible deniability ;)

Pac3r

HOw did you do that?

In the device control panel under disk drives, you should see the ipod. Right click and choose properties. On the policies tab you can choose optimize for performance which enables caching. Beware, you will now need to let Windows know when you are disconnecting the hardware, as it needs to release the disk cache. I have just tried changing this setting. I don't know if it will affect my transfer rates.