OT: Effective Speed of 10BaseT

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sun Nov 14 16:18:41 1999

On Nov 14, 16:37, Kevin Schoedel wrote:
> On 1999/11/14 at 12:00pm -0800, you wrote:
> >I'm wondering what the effective speed of 10Mbit Ethernet is. I've got
a
> >DEC 3000/300LX that just isn't giveing me the kind of Xfer rates I
expect,

> I get 14.7MB/minute, copying four PDFs totalling 22MB from a
> substantially slower Mac (603e at 180MHz) to a much slower (on-topic:-)
> DECstation 5000 (R3000 at 33MHz) running Netatalk on NetBSD 1.4.1.

But are you running over 10baseT (or 10base2) all the way? Zane's system
might take a fair performance hit because either the hub or the switch is
buffering every packet and retransmitting it.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Sun Nov 14 1999 - 16:18:41 GMT

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