I would be interesting in knowing if anyone with a 60 / 80 gig ipod is getting speeds routinely faster than 2 mb/sec.
I have a 60GB iPod Video (5G) and get faster speeds than 2mb/sec. My speeds, depending on the sizes of the files being transferred, generally AVERAGE from about 2.6mb/sec up to about 4.7mb/sec. I just did a sync and the speed seemed to be higher when transferring a lot of smaller music files, and slower when transferring my larger Audible files. This seems counterintuitive, but when the music was trasferring, the speeds averaged around 4.7. With the Audible files, the average dropped to around 2.6 to 3mb/sec.
In the sync I just did, the highest speed I saw was 5.2mb/sec, and the lowest was 0.9mb/sec. The 0.9, however, was very brief and only once. I saw a lot of speeds up around 4.8 to 5.0mb/sec, so the 0.9 was most likely a dip due to the system doing something. I DID have my virus scanner on, and this is on a Dual Pentium 3 1Gig, so it's a rather slow system.
Larry