"Dual networking"?

From	Don Bruder <Don@sonic.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	"Dual networking"?
Date	2017-03-25 09:00 -0700
Organization	Chaotic Creations Unlimited
Message-ID	<ob641v$so2$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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The new (to me) iMac running 10.7.5 has wireless capability built in. It 
sees and uses our wi-fi<-->DSL box just fine. It also has a nifty little 
wired Ethernet port. Now isn't that just special? :) 

The old machine, a Sawtooth G4 maxed out at 10.4.11, likewise has 
wireless (via a card and external antenna combo rather than built-in) 
which it also uses just fine. And - Surprise! - it has an Ethernet port. 
<cue F/X - collective crowd gasp>

I want both rigs to talk to the intertubewebz through their individual 
wi-fi capability - which works exactly as expected and intended.

When both are online this way, copy/transfer operations *BETWEEN THE TWO 
MACHINES* are insanely slow - a few hundred megs is predicted to take 16 
hours - and if I watch it through a few updates, it looks like that just 
might be a reasonable prediction. 3 gigs is predicted to take *FOUR 
DAYS*???? Urk...

So I plug an Ethernet cable in between them, set things up, try again, 
and find that it's just as slow. <head-scratch> 

<lightbulb> Turn off the wireless on the old machine. Try to xfer the 
few hundred meg directory again. "... about 4 minutes remaining". That's 
a bit more like it... except that machine isn't talking to the internet. 
<grumble> Turn wireless (and thus, internet) back on. Trying the xfers 
again gives me the insanely long time estimates again. Wassup with THAT? 

It *APPEARS* that trying to transfer between the two machines prefers to 
use the wireless route for some insane reason - Seems as though I can't 
have both machines online via wireless and have the ethernet between 
them "active" at the same time.

What've I got screwed up?

-- 
If the door is baroque don't be Haydn. Come around Bach and jiggle the Handel.

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"Dual networking"? Don Bruder <Don@sonic.net> - 2017-03-25 09:00 -0700
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