Is this typical? Can I figure out why, where the bottleneck is? Obviously I would like to understand what is going on here for just plain old use. This is ignoring any compression, overhead, execution time, but it looks like my download rate is on the order of 1 or 2Mb/s. The installed mountain lion takes up 20Gbytes, if I assume download rate of just 100Mb/s=0.1Gb/s and if I am doing the math right: 20Gbytes*8bits/byte/(0.1Gb/s)=1600s or 26.7 minutes. I am assuming the 130 above means 130M bit/sec. I have seen posts saying to use wired ethernet, it is faster, like 3x, but I haven't seen anything saying just how many minutes or hours to expect.
With 100% signal strength, I don't know why it isn't connecting at 300M. The router is a netgear wnr3500Lv2 if anyone cares, stock firmware updated yesterday. and the hours to complete aren't going down that much. Logging into the router reports everything is 1000M wired and 300M wireless capable, I can display Tx and Rx statistics in B/s but they are wrong - always increasing: 18282, then 18291 five seconds later. Should it take this long? The router says it is connected at 130:100%, option-click on the wireless icon on the MBA tells me "Transmit Rate: 130" and 802.11n. It's been a couple hours now, and it has downloaded 41 of 414 chunks. So I hold command-R down while powering on, click on re-install lion (I did not erase, although it would have been ok), after a few minutes to prepare, the mba informs me that it will take about 30 hours to complete. Had usb tethering worked out of the box, I wouldn't be doing any of this.
#Mountain lion mac recovery install
I really haven't started using the system yet, so starting over factory settings, run any updates, and install the one package I need to tether is fine with me. The safest thing seems to be re-install mountain lion. Eventually I installed the right thing, and it seems to work OK now, but I have some concerns about that first download.
At first when I was still trying to figure things out, I downloaded what I think was a kernal modification to the Mac, and it didn't work. It looks like I need to use something like easytether or PdaNet, both of which installs software on both the phone and the Mac. When I connected the USB cable from mba to phone, the mba didn't give me a network connection.
#Mountain lion mac recovery android
Unfortunately I have an android phone, and there will be times that I will want to tether, using the phone's 4G for internet access. First, just to avoid the why questions: I have an almost new Macbook Air that came with mountain lion.
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