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