Transfer Speeds PCMCIA CF vs Network.

[bbond007]

samba works really well on an 060, but I'd not try it with anything less than 030/40mhz and with that its going to be painful.

Wired is going to have less latency then wired, and when you are talking about something as chatty as SMB, that will make a difference. My tests show that wired is also 30% faster throughput.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=62222&highlight=a1200+networking+options

FTP is probably the fastest option as it has a lot less CPU overhead.

[bbond007]

I find smbfs is really slow on my 060 and on my PowerBook compared to FTP, less than half the speed by comparison.

This is always handy but sometimes chokes on a connection for no apparent reason.

http://aminet.net/package/comm/tcp/FTPMount

I actually have really only had it choke when I was trying to navigate folders with an excessive amount of files/folders from inside workbench. I can use the CLI and it works just fine. It does have a little lag feel to it, like using USB/SUBWAY but no worse...

Perhaps it simply works better connected to windows than mac.

I know I have used that FTPmount utility before but could not recall the name. That really looks like the way to go

[bbond007]

You'll need to install an ftp server on your PC, but I have no idea how to do this on Windows though.

very simple

http://www.sysprobs.com/step-by-step-guide-how-to-setup-ftp-server-on-windows-8

[bbond007]

Just tried it and FTPMount could not be simpler to setup. Make sure you allow FTP in windows firewall which was where I was going wrong

you just go into the hosts directory of wherever you installed it and add a DIR for the server in there.

in my case ftpuser@192.168.1.114 and ftpuser@x51 both worked.

ftpuser is the user on windows8 I setup with ftp permission. x51 is the name of my computer.

just FYI, It works but seems to have long periods of unresponsiveness worse than anything I'd typically experience with samba.

[bbond007]

I've found that happens a lot with remote ftp sites more than local ones. Maybe it doesn't like some ftp server programs as much as others?

I run proftpd on my Linux machines and it works ok. I think you can use it on Windows via Cygwin.

It seems like after it stalls for a while leaving all of workbench unresponsive then finally comes back and asks for login/password again and works again for a while. Seems like its disconnecting or timing out for whatever reason. There might be some settings I can tweak on either end. I can also try and enable FTP on my mac and see if it works better with that.