Copying file

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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From windows 7 “my Computer” I can see MBL. When I open it I can see all directories.

When i want to copy file from one directory on MBL to another it is very very slow.

When I log in MBL using ssh copying file from one directory to another is almost instant.

Can someone try to explain why this is the case please.

Thanks

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when you use wifi connection to copy files from your computer to mbl, the speed is limited by wifi adapter or wifi router . for recent models, laptop equipped with a 150Mbps wifi adapter (802.11n) usually, two years ago it was 54Mbps (802.11g).  54Mbps equal to less than 7M bytes/s in theory, but in reality, consider with factors like signal indensity, multiple devices working in the same band (2.4G Hz), normally the speed is around 1.8M bytes/s.

when you copy files between folders in mbl, the speed is the hard drive read/write speed. it can easilly reach 80M bytes/s.

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But this is not copying from mbl to mbl.
I use windows 7 i go my network and there i can see directories on mbl
When i right click and copy file and then try to paste it into different directory on mbl what am i actually doing? Am i copying from laptop to mbl or mbl to mbl?

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The file is tranfering to your computer and then from your computer back to the new destination on the MyBookLive

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If you want to moves files within the same share you are better off using cut and paste