Transfer speed

The performance depends much on the speed of both systems but you should get reasonable speed even on slow systems. The following transfer rates were measured on the following systems:
-Amiga A600 CPU: 68030 @ 25 MHz RAM: 10 MByte HD: 250 MByte OS: AmigaOS 2.05 WB: 2.1
  • PC
    • CPU: Intel PIII 800 MHz
    • RAM: 704 MByte
    • HD: 35 GByte
    • OS: GNU/Linux 2.4.18
RAM <-> HD HD <-> HD
Amiga ->PC 38 KByte/s 32 KByte/s
Amiga<- PC 18 KByte/s 15 KByte/s

Comparison with other transfer methods:
Serial
Floppydisc
Serial
APCComm
3.8 KB/s
(31250 Bit/s)
4 KB/s
14.4 KB/s
(115200 Bit/s)
38 KB/s
Serial: theoretical value without reading/writing
Floppy: Filesize / ( Time for writing from amiga to disc + time for reading from disc to pc )

There is no crunching code so the speed doesn't depend on the content of the files you are transferring. You can get lower or ever higher values. You can expect decent rates even when using slower systems.
Also the overhead for small files is rather big so transferring many small files will impact the speed. Archiving (even without compression) is recommended for this case if time matters.

Speed reports are very welcome!

other Speed reports
System Direction Speed
A1200 030/50, Celeron 333 PC->Amiga 16-18 KByte