I am resigned to the fact that I will only get a slow transfer rate of about 1Mb/s when copying files from my laptop to MBL, and that is with both laptop & MBL connected to my wireless router.
I did follow someone’s suggestion of connecting both my laptop and MBL to a Gigabit switch and was I thrilled when I was getting anywhere between 17MB/s and 40Mb/s transfer rate! However this only lasted for a few days until this morning when my laptop auto-rebooted after applying MS security patches, and for some unknown reason the transfer rate dropped to 1-2Mb/s. I reseated the laptop ethernet cable at both laptop and Gigabit switch ends and that made no difference.