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AirDrop is 100x slower than the equivalent wired solution. I say this as someone transfering 350GB of media off their phone on friday, Apple needs to fix wired
by zionic 4y ago
AirDrop is 100x slower than the equivalent wired solution. I say this as someone transfering 350GB of media off their phone on friday, Apple needs to fix wired file access from mac to phone.
- Hamuko 4y agoLightning is limited to 53 MB/s by the sheer virtue of being USB 2.0, and probably is even slower in real life, so AirDrop would be at maximum 0.5 MB/s?
- ulfw 4y agoOf course it's not. https://www.shaunpoore.com/why-is-airdrop-fast/ https://www.shaunpoore.com/why-is-airdrop-fast/
- hbn 4y agoI think they were saying it's 100x slower than if Apple just used modern over-wire transfer methods. I'm also thinking the "100x" was not a genuine mathematical assertion