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Firewire speed

I remember someone mentioning that which slot you install your firewire card into can hurt it's performance or not make it work at all. Well, currently, I almost never get more than 2 or 2.5 mbits/sec when transferring to the ipod. So, might that be because it's not in the optimal spot for my computer?
[313 byte] By [Septus] at [2007-11-9 12:17:17]
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# 1 Re: Firewire speed
I think the relationship between pci slot and speed is a myth. What program are you using to transfer?
Crumage at 2007-11-15 17:06:43 >
# 2 Re: Firewire speed
Ephpod. I also have a 733 duron with 256 Ram, if that makes a big difference, and running XP.
Septus at 2007-11-15 17:07:43 >
# 3 Re: Firewire speed
septus,

i have a 4-pin firewire on my 3ghz pIII-M notebook (win xp home) and get with ephpod approx. 2,9 mb/s.

i think this speed is normal for pc users. check out ephpod's website, i think i read something about that there in the faqs.

tibor
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instantliving at 2007-11-15 17:08:52 >
# 4 Re: Firewire speed
I get ~6 MB/sec through an Audigy Platinum FW port on a WinXP system with a 3GHz P4...

Craig
clovell at 2007-11-15 17:09:47 >
# 5 Re: Firewire speed
I think MC9 is a lot faster then ephPod for some reason. I get 3.75+ mb/s on a 500Mhz 128mb ram.
pank2002 at 2007-11-15 17:10:46 >
# 6 Re: Firewire speed
It can depend on your card greatly. Speed isn't related to the slot AFAIK. It is related to the card though. I've got an orangelink from orange micro and averaged 3-4 w/ephpod but w/MC9 I get around 5

Adam
ashawley at 2007-11-15 17:11:45 >
# 7 Re: Firewire speed
weird, i average 9 mb/s on a "good day", and 5 mb/s "off day". I have a sony vaio laptop, w/ an ilnk port (4 pin firewire).
airman at 2007-11-15 17:12:49 >
# 8 Re: Firewire speed
o and i use ephpod. And I have a 30 GB ipod. pentium 4 processor. and 2.2 Ghz. Givin all the info i think is needed
airman at 2007-11-15 17:13:52 >
# 9 Re: Firewire speed
Fast speeds! i get around 6mb/s with ephpod on winxp Pro.
stasyna at 2007-11-15 17:14:50 >
# 10 Re: Firewire speed
all you guys who see different speeds with Ephpod and MC9

could you please see if changing to "Use Windows Copying routines" in Ephpoh make the sync go faster?

the reason i ask is that i might want to buya firewire card, because my usb1.1 gives me only 0.8 MBps
akarnk at 2007-11-15 17:15:51 >
# 11 Re: Firewire speed
No, windows copy routines generally just doesn't work in ephpod. Joe (the creator) used to say this was due to a bug on Windows. Not sure on that, but I tend to think he knows what he's talking about.

Anyway, don't use it anymore so I don't know if it ever got fixed, but it used to be a big "no-no" to use the window's copy routines option.

Adam
ashawley at 2007-11-15 17:17:00 >
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