file sharing painfully slow

[Andy Ringsmuth]

> Since the generic icon is determined by the system hosting the  
> files, my Finder is asking that system for each files, and the  
> remote system is sending a 128px * 128px * 4 channels, that's 64KB  
> of data per image redundantly being downloaded. That is high order  
> sabotage to do this. What a bad bad idea. And that's consistent  
> with the bandwidth available and the amount of time it's taking for  
> the list view to load in and for the Finder to recover.
>
> It's just craziness to defend this behavior. It does not at all  
> "work fine."
>
> I will bet this is one of the reasons why iDisk connections hang up  
> the Finder, as it's trying to grab a bunch of file icons  
> unnecessarily. This is so ridiculous at this stage it's camp. My  
> god Apple...

I've always thought Apple should have a preference somewhere like  
"disable custom icons on network disks."  That way one could simply  
check a little box, perhaps in Finder Preferences, and then it'd be  
so much faster on remote connections.

I'm frustrated with this at times too, such as when I connect to my  
office server from home or from a hotel room.  PAINFULLY slow.  I  
think Apple doesn't realize that just because Steve Wozniak had a T1  
line in his home when most people had 2400bps modems doesn't mean we  
all have bandwidth up the wazoo.

-Andy