I have the same problem, bought the pogo to stream movies to the iphone but no go. It starts plays a few seconds then stops. This happens over 3g, however I can stream movies to the iphone over my local wifi just fine. So I believe you can chalk this up to AT&Ts slow network or the Pogo iPhone apps lack of buffering.

I find it to be extremely slow over the internet, playing video files using VLC is miserable...sometimes they don't even work.

I have pogoplug on a high-speed DSL (Bellsouth)and cannot download anything of any size at all. This thing sucks! I have tried different places to download over the net from, including a fast cable modem and get the same poor results.

I MUST have a setting wrong or something, because my popoplug web connection is the fastest DSL that Bellsouth offers... something like 16 megs download/1meg upload. I have a Western Digital "book" drive with two 500-gig NTFS drives (mirroring each other) that is connected via USB to the pogoplug.

I tried to do a search of this drive for .doc files and I turned it off after 10 minutes. It did list a few .doc files, so I tried to open up a 7-meg Word file and it was so slow, I oculdn't tell anything was happening.

This Windows 7 machine is a 4-processor laptop with a DSL connection via 802.11n wireless connection, which should be decent. If the pogoplug is working properly and my settings are right, the pogoplug is a first-class dog and there is no way I would recommend it. I have access to a Buffalo NAS over the net and access is decent, much faster than the pogoplug.

I am hoping that pogoplug is monitoring this site and will suggest something that I can do to make this hardware useful. At this point, it is essentially worthless.

Buffalo 1 TB NAS USB connected to Linksys Router 802.11n, USB connected to Cable Modem - 2.5 meg picture file downloaded in 1 min. (41.66k/Sec.)

Western Digital RAID 1 (mirrored 500 Gig disks) connected USB to Pogoplug, Connected USB to Linksys 802.11g router, connected to Bellsouth DSL 512k/sec upload speed 2.5 meg picture download took 2 minutes for the download screen to open, after 6 minutes total, with the progress screen showing about 9k per second and half of the file downloaded, it stopped downloading and my computer opened the picture with only the top half of the picture. This same type of thing happened when I was trying to download one of my audiobook files... incomplete download that just abruptly stopped (timed out?)... I dunno.

It is important to note, I guess that the buffalo NAS is in Pensacola, where I am now... and the Pogoplug is in Georgia. More switches to go through.

Maybe you need to wake the server disk up and then count the time?
So the first file will take to open forever, but the next few ones may take short time?

Did not get through complete thread but have several things to watch for in bottlenecks. I have 50Mbps service but only get 30 when going through my router/Unified Threat Management system. Most of the consumer routers were not built for these speeds until very recently (most were DSL rates).

When evaluating the speed a common misconception is comparing your ISP speed of say 2 Meg to a actual speed of say 140Kbps. ISP's quote in bits and computer show bytes (I know for many this is obvious, but thought it might help). Therefore the 140KBps is actually 1.12 Mbps.

Comparison of using the Pogo Connect (??) drive mounting software vs using a browser is the different protocols. Browsers use http/https as pointed out by newbie. The downloaded software is using WebDav (I believe) which is know to be slow. I use Apple's MobileMe iDisk and one other implementation of WebDav and all are slow.

Cross ISP streaming is not always one of the two ISP's. These connections go through "peering" points which are not under the control of either ISP. An interesting test would be to stream across a single ISP instead of going through the peering point. Last of my knowledge, consumer lines take a different path than business which is more subject to congestion.

Just a couple of thoughts. I have not started my testing yet. Still trying to do homework on how the Pogo reencodes the video or how I prevent it from doing so.

Please excuse if this was obvious, just thought the Bytes vs bits would at least make it more meaningful.

I am having problems watching movies over 3g for IPHONE. Any suggestions.

Wow...

Well, I've been reading through all sorts of reviews for Cloud Storage solutions and came across an article about PogoPlug being able to "sling" content from home. Therefore, I natural figured why pay a cloud provider for the storage and transfer when Pogo could do it. I assumed it would work as good as my Slingbox device, sorry to hear it doesn't.

I was hoping to use it for on-demand content from my home to our 4G Evo's.

Thanks for all your comments/posts, I guess I'll be looking for another solution.

Good Luck with it.

- Chad

newbie said: From what I gather, people are experiencing bandwidth problems when accessing the pogoplug (behind a router) from the internet. I am wondering if the poor bandwidth performance is the same when accessing it through the web interface via http &https. My suspecion is that accessing pogoplug through the internet is heavily hampered by the throughput of my.pogoplug.com servers. A little side track question. What download speed from pogoplug do people experience on their internal lan? What about upload speed? Thank you.

This may be something to look at for performance problems...

I noticed my file transfers are routed through 38.122.2.* (the pogoplug servers).  This seems unnecessary.  (IP locator says my traffic is going through Washington DC, ugggghhh, I feel sorry for internationals)

I could understand the servers being used as a middleman for establishing a connection between the pogoplug hardware and the pogoplug app, but once my connection has been established I should not be routed through their servers.  Unless I'm missing something.