gigabit ethernet

Hey all, I recently acquired a 2000 Graphite Gigabit Ethernet Power Mac G4 from an estate sale, and it came with the mouse, keyboard, monitor, and everything. It’s in very good condition, but the thing doesn’t power on right now because the clock battery inside of it is dead, so I’ve ordered a...

Good Morning, I have a late 2009 iMac, which I recently upgraded with 12GBs of memory and a SSD hard drive to give it new life. I just upgraded my internet to 1000Mbps. I was wondering if there was a way to upgrade my computer to handle speeds anywhere near that via WiFi. Can I just upgrade my...

I have an irritating speed issue in my home network. My network has gigabit switches like this: Switch 1 <- Switch 2 <- iMac 1, iMac 2 Switch 1 <- Switch 3 <- Mac Mini 1, Airport Extreme Switch 1 <- Mac Mini 2 All Macs are manually set to 1000BaseT in their respective network settings, and...

Not sure if this is the correct place for this post, but... I have an iMac (late 2015, i5, 16GB memory, and a 2TB fusion drive), and a Windows 10 computer. Both units have a gigabit NIC. When transferring data between the two, the highest speed I notice is around 850-860 MBs. Shouldn't I get...

I am just transferring stuff from a late 09 iMac to a new one via Gigabit ethernet. It started off fairly briskly, at around 45MB/s, estimating around 2.5 hours. But it has now slowed right down to about 4MB/s, estimating around 25 hours. I don't suppose there's much I can do about it, but...