Your speed its primarily a result of your internet and not the pogoplug. Different ways to speed up transfer. (fastest) plug your hard drive straight into your laptop. This is not the most convenient but if you have a large amount of files to transfer it is the quickest. (Fast) hard wire you laptop straight to the router. Using an Ethernet cable will greatly speed up your transfers. Using a wireless connection will be the slowest. I have never reached speeds as fast as 25 mb/s. However while on wi-fi I average 1 to 2 mb/s and when using an Ethernet cable i average between 10 mb/s and 12 mb/s. These speeds are given using a 4 year old hp laptop. Im sure a newer laptop will transfer faster.

Assuming you are transferring via you LAN then internet speed will not come into account.
Also check and make sure that 'Use full security settings' is turned off at my.pogoplug > Settings > Security. That will affect your LAN speeds.

Since I like to not only have a back up, but the ability to share my pics I use the Pogoplug software and active copy to put my pics on my Pogoplug.

All I have to do is copy my pics to my computer and the pogoplug SW takes care of putting them on my Poplug in the beckground so it doesn't really matter how long it takes.

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here is a good one-

tried to upload about 6 gigs worth of MP3 files remotely through internet to my Pogoplug via the 2.5 client to USB flash disk attached and dragging and dropping from Windows Explorer. got about 1/10th(800 mb) of the way through. files were about 2-4 meg each. according to task manager, was uploading at roughly 130k-600k per second which is slow but probably appropriate for the file size I guess and my upload rate is probably about that speed too. tried to add more traffic to the equation but WAN traaffic never got above 130k. the upload never really stalled but i noticed other computers and devices dropping off my pogoplug network, not able to connect via wifi or not being able to get a new dhcp address. could still ping router and get to internet on another machine.

my prognosis, i inadvertently flooded my inbound router with inbound traffic causing a Denial of Service condition. only way to fix was to reboot the inbound router that my Pogoplug was on. moral of the story-this stuff happens.....another case of a consumer level piece of equipment failing because I was trying to do more than it could handle. there are alot of components and variables to doing a simple transfer over the internet. if something you are doing isn;t working, don;t get discouraged. getting everything to work the way you expect it to might take a little trial and error.

the USB flash disk was probably another weak link. retrying to my 7200 rpm SATA drive and seems to be working. using a program called ALLSYNC to syncronize folder and drive letters this time too.

incidentally, using the web interface, copied 800 mb from the USB Flash Disk to the 7200 SATA disk and took about 1-2 minutes.

btw, confirmed up download speed on the network with my Pogoplug resides on has a rate of only 1.32 megabits down and 1.30 up using speedtest.org. my upload finished just fine although it took a while. maybe the ALLWAY SYNC software help a little-it has a way of limiting bandwidth when transferring files.

the speed sucks but streaming for the most part works. i stream to this network from a slingbox and a hava box and the picture is relatively clear and smooth and only reports using about 300-600 k..

Yeah, my Internet is a dinky dsl connection. Cable is better.