Slow burning with a Lite-on SOHW 1633S External DVD writer

[jvcd177]

Ive recently been bought a Lite-on external DVD Writer for my laptop. It writes OK but takes about 60 mins to write 1.2GB of data even at 8 speed. This seems to be a little too slow. Any help or suggestions highly appreciated

Spec
2.9 Ghz Intel
512Mb Ram
60 GB hard drive
Windows XP SP2

 

[rflores]

Have you tried a firmware upgrade...