Why does it take forever to transfer data using the cradle?
Hope I'm finally posting this in the right forum :-P
I ripped a movie and converted it using the excellent quide here, but since I dont have a card reader installed on this PC I used the Windows data transfer progam to move it over to the CF card...
Its taking foooooooooorever. Now this is a brand new PC and I just can't imagine that a 480mb file would normally take this long over a USB 2.0 connection.
Yes yes yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just bought a sandisk 12+1 reader this morninng and ripped my first dvd and using the card reader method took 2 minutes maybe less!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I am going to use this for transfering all my files from this point on. This is definitely a must have for us impatient types!
Get a Card reader (and make sure it's a USB2 one) and watch those files fly. one of the best bangs per buck investment you can make for your axim
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and because activsync seems to act as a bottle neck, People who use cardexport say they get a better transfer rate (although still only usb1 speeds)
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The Axims as are most pdas are USB 1.1 so it is slow....wifi is much faster for syncing and installing programs :) so its not really all activesyncs fault....
You mean to tell me a device made in 2005 only has usb 1.1!?!?!
Thats just sick...
Most do... I think it's down to the mobile chipset implementation. (the HP4700 is a rare exception)
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lol good thing I'm American and not German... because she is definately a homegrown phenomenon
BTW does anyone know if there is a firewire card reader on the market? I have 4 firewire ports on this PC and dont have even one thing to use them with.
The transfer rate thru the cradle isnt even close to usb 1.1 speed. The connector is a usb 1.1 standard but there is a serial converter inside the pda that does the actual transfer. So you can only get serial speed from the cradle period which is slow as a three legged turtle carrying a 5 lb weight. Usb 1.1 is hundreds times faster than serial.
The transfer rate thru the cradle isnt even close to usb 1.1 speed. The connector is a usb 1.1 standard but there is a serial converter inside the pda that does the actual transfer. So you can only get serial speed from the cradle period which is slow as a three legged turtle carrying a 5 lb weight.
The problem isn't the cradle, it's ActiveSync itself.
Using Card Export II with the same cradle, transfer speeds are increased to near the USB 1.1 max. http://winmobiletech.com/062005CardExport/
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