Mac networking help sought
Monday, October 20, 2008 by Dave Winer.
Update: The problem appears to have been solved. 
I've been trying to track down a problem on my Mac-only network since Friday afternoon, and now have it narrowed down pretty well to one computer, my main desktop, that's got some kind of bug that makes it very slow at copying file to one other system, and vice versa.
Here's a schematic of a piece of the LAN.
Even so, copying files to any other computer on the network is just as fast as always. So you'd think it was the fault of the other computer, but evidence indicates otherwise. It can copy files to other computers quite quickly.
When I say slow, how slow is that? Well, it's very very slow. About 2MB per minute.
This computer just isn't working very well. I drew up the schematic and scanned it, but it took about 100 times as long as it usually does.
If this were a Windows machine I'd think it was infected.
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