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User profile for user: WH72
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7.5.2 firmware update causes samba read performance to be slow.

Anybody has a resolution for following problem. With 7.4.1 I had an acceptable wireless speed to my macbook, from 2 different samba mounts directly connected to the airport extreme: one nas over gigabit, one linux machine on 100mbit.

After updating to 7.5.2 the write performance is still good but reading from either the nas or the linux machine is a factor of 100-1000 slower then the write performance.....

Does anyone has a link to download the old firmware (7.4.1)? which seems not to be downloadable from the support page.
Any tips or tricks?

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Dec 18, 2010 1:49 PM

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User profile for user: Community User
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Jun 12, 2018 5:34 PM in response to WH72

Same problem here. My iMac is connected to the Airport using ethernet.
My MacBook access the iMac using the WiFi and an AFP sharing.
Everything was ok in 7.4.2

But since the 7.5.2 upgrade, the performances are super slow when the MacBook download something from the iMac (20KB/s is a maximum). More surprising, the upload is going well !

If I revert to 7.4.2, everything is OK again.

PS: the issue also affect my canon printer, connected in Ethernet.
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User profile for user: Jamvan
Jamvan
User level: Level 2
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Dec 18, 2010 3:09 PM in response to WH72

In Airport Utility, click to highlight your Airport Extreme. In the right hand side, click on "Manual Setup". In the summary tab, place your mouse pointer above "Version" in the version number area. You will see the word turn into a link (gray highlight with a little arrow inside it). Click on this and a drop down menu will appear which will let you revert to a prior firmware version.
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User profile for user: gboudreau
gboudreau
User level: Level 1
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Dec 21, 2010 4:36 AM in response to WH72

I doubt this is related to any particular server; I could reproduce when using both my Fedora server with Samba 3.4.9, and by connecting to a remote iMac using AFP... Quite different, but same symptom: OK writes, very slow reads.
I didn't try using my hard drive connected to my AirPort station. I'm pretty sure the performance would have been the same.
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7.5.2 firmware update causes samba read performance to be slow.

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