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When it comes to file transfer over your local area network, Wifi and Bluetooth win hands down, when it comes to "coolness". Obviously, the laptops at my house share files using their built-in Airport Extreme cards but all other computers are connected through a "legacy" 100 MBIT Ethernet Switch (DLink DSS5+) and that is also the case for Tom's Mac Mini.
It would take some serious work to convince him that a plain old CAT5 Ethernet cable really has its advantages even when that means no being one of the 802.11 cool kids.
We started looking into all the different ways in which we can share (or at least transfer) files between the Macintosh computers.
Ethernet
Firewire
Wifi
Bluetooth
Now all these networking options have different advantages and their preferred applications. However, we were only looking as one think, transfer speed, how fast files could be moved between computers.
To establish a point of reference, we looked at the time it took to copy 10 megabytes and 100 megabytes locally on the G5 PowerMac.
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