Comment 46 for bug 177235

I frequently transfer large amounts of data from usb attached docks or adapters. Currently it does show up as "Connection: USB at 480.0 MB/s". However the transfer speed is still around 1.5-1.9MB/s. Less than 2 Megs/sec. I can download from the internet faster than that. This has been a problem with ubuntu linux for years, as stated above. Other linux distros don't have this horrendous slowdown - I'll frequently just boot an unhealthy machine with Knoppix to transfer files from it directly over the network because it is faster that way than using Ubuntu's setup.

It is not network overhead/latency/throughput issues. It is not hardware. Same hardware runs faster under every other operating system. This is my ~6 month rant. Enjoy. Bump.