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Will 10.5” support USB 3 speeds now at least?
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i agree on this. it's SO slow!!
But if you have an AC WIFI chip on your Mac, please try Airdrop instead of iTunes. That made a world of difference for me, it's really fast.
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it's doesn't matter. You don't even need internet. It's direct device to device Wifi transfer. =)
Thanks for the reply. I have the 13" MBP TB. If I were to get one of the newer iPads, I should have AC connection between the devices, correct?
Yes, correct. Actually, WIFi AC has been supported since the iPad Air 2 (although it's faster on recent iPads, because reading and writing speeds of the flash memory were bottle necks and now they have been improved)
Useless comment. We are talking about through the router in your house.
Smh.
I'm using an apple AC router and still get slow transfers from wifi
I don't know about iTunes, but Airdrop doesn't pass through the router, so, if you use Airdrop, your router should be irrelevant. You don't even need a router, you can be in the middle of the ocean/desert, with no connection at all and Airdrop will still work (personal experience). I suspect the iTunes implementation is just inferior and older
It works between recent iOS devices, between recent Mac computers, and between recent Mac computers AND iOS devices.
Alas, no Windows/Android support, which is Airdrop biggest limitation
Cool so I could transfer video files from my iPhone to my iPad or back again ?
Unfortunately even your comment is kinda offtopic because this topic is about getting USB 3 sync speeds on the new iPads. I have tried wifi transferring but inspite of connecting at 866 Mbps to the router and my PC connecting at 1 Gbps via ethernet cable, I was never able to surpass USB 2 transfer speeds. That's the nature of wifi tech. Speeds are usually halved due to random things like interference, channel issues, etc.
Yeah, I knew they were only USB 2. And maybe you're right, they don't have enough confidence in their implementation to put supporting products (cables) out themselves or to let others do it.
yep...look what I have found, first paragraph, the asterisks
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204566
From Apple's own MFI website:
"*Only Apple makes the USB-C to Lightning Cable. There are no "Made for iPod/iPhone/iPad" USB-C to Lightning cables."
Also...
There you go guys! I 've just perform a quick Airdrop test, so that we can add some numbers to our discussion:
With no internet connection, I've sent three large files (2200 MB each) from my 2014 MacBook Air to my 2015 iPad Pro, via Airdrop.
On average, the transfer speed was 56.4 MB/s, which is equal to 451.2 Mbit/s
The theorethical speed of USB2 is 60MB/s (or 480 Mbit/s).
But that's theory! In practice USB2 is usually around 30-40 MB/s (at best), which means that Airdrop can actually be faster than USB2.
Conversely, USB3 is much faster, having a theoretical limit of 640MB/s.
Conclusions: Airdrop between recent Ac devices is as fast as cable transfer, if not noticeably faster, and it's suitable for moderate to average workflows, while still falling short of modern tethered connections (USB3/USBC), that after 5 years Apple is still unwilling to provide to its "Pro" users.
Good news and Bad news in the same post. =)
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Right. For that, I have a couple of wireless filehubs that accept different hard drives, flash drives, cards, etc.. But again, transfer speed becomes an issue though the Kingston G3 is AC.
I only mentioned the AC router to clarify that wifi syncing is no faster. Someone earlier had asked.
To be honest everyone is all over the place in this thread and I can't really take it any more. Good luck guys
There is indeed a way to use Ethernet adapters with the camera adapters with the iPad. YMMV though
There is, unfortunately you have to use the Apple Ethernet adaptor. Which of course is...USB 2.0. Apple probably won't ever make a USB 3.0 adaptor as they have thunderbolt, and third party adaptors won't work on iOS as they don't have the drivers (unlike this Apple adaptor that seems to have the drivers built into iOS).
If there's a USB 3 to thunderbolt adaptor someone could go crazy with 3 dongles to try and get USB 3 Ethernet....
I don't have a strong opinion on the USB2/3 matter, but I just thought I'd come back and correct these mistaken messages. To be fair, System Information's USB power is difficult to read.
The total amount of power being given to a device is the sum of "current available" and "extra operating current". In my original screenshot, it's showing that my iPad is being given 500mA + 1600mA = 2100mA.
I believe it's written like this because USB power handshaking happens in stages - first, the device connects using the base USB power spec which tops out at 500mA, then negotiates with the host to enable the higher levels of power delivery that more modern devices support. Here, System Information is telling us that the iPad requested the maximum available 500mA as part of the base USB power spec, then requested an extra 1600mA as part of the high power spec.
Indeed, if you plug any modern iPad into a port that only supplies 500mA it'll give a "Not Charging" message, which isn't the case when I plug my iPad into my MacBook. It charges pretty quickly!
I did notice the extra available power. But in your screenshot I saw both the required (=requested) and available (=provided) current to be at 500mA.
I think the extra operating current is used for fast change. At least it is how I read this page:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204377
The page you linked exactly matches what I said:
My screenshot shows that the iPad is receiving a total of 2100mA — the 500mA default plus 1600mA extra operating current.