Ipod syncing issues with itunes media stored on 3tb mybook live

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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Hello! I recently moved all my media to my 3TB mybook live. Since doing this it takes forever to sync my ipod classic with itunes. I did not have a sync issue when my itunes media was stored on a 1TB mybook.  I have scoured both wd communities and itunes communities looking for a reason this is happening. 

I have made sure that the itunes server is enabled and I can play play audio files, etc. My Windows 7 laptop is connected via RJ45 cable directly to my Uverse gateway router (had WD live support walk me through set up, etc).

Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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The 1tb drive was a NAS as well? o.o

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Don’t think so. It is the 1 TB My Book Essential that connects directly to a pc or laptop via USB. I suspect the problem is that the mybook live is connected to the uverse gateway router and not directly to my laptop. Being connected wirelessly just kills the connection speeds.

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That’s likely it. Even though in theory Gigabit is faster than USB, theere are just a lot of things in between killing that.

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I’ve been on the phone with WD tech support (not much help) and At&T Uverse tech support (even worse). Tier 2 support from AT&T changed the wifi channel on the router so I’ll see if that makes a difference.

Thanks for replying!

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“Being connected wirelessly just kills the connection speeds”

Well, your network is only as strong, as its weakes link. In this case, wireless access would be the one. 

http://www.speedguide.net/faq_in_q.php?qid=374

When synching, you could try to hard wire to the router as well. And be wireless for all other tasks.

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