That also raises the question of if it's implementation-dependent (especially if Apple optimizes AFP over everything else), rather than generally applicable to

That also raises the question of if it's implementation-dependent (especially if Apple optimizes AFP over everything else), rather than generally applicable to SMB, not that this would negate the validity of the example. > Over cable I'd say it's at least twice as fast That could be be because of the bandwidth difference, if wireless isn't 802.11ac (or if the cable isn't 100Mb/s). Is it also the case that copying a single file of comparable size doesn't show the same speedup?