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Subject: Re: 3C589 performance (was Re: obtaining 3COM 3C589C PC-CARDs ) 
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> > > I'll gladly swap a 3c589c for any of the PAO supported PCCARD 
> > > network cards (see http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO).  My impression 
> > > of their performance is somewhat lacking (~200k/sec on average).
> > 
> > Woah!?
> > 
> > I 've done some benchmarking and I'm getting on my Thinkpad 701C something
> > like 700K/sec with my 3C589B.
> 
> On a silent network, their throughput is fine.  Unfortunately, it 
> appears that the '589 suffers from similar problems to other 3Com cards 
> on networks with other traffic; I see transfers out of this system as 
> slow as 50K/sec on a lightly to moderately loaded network.  Others have 
> reported similar experiences with other cards (3C509, 3C59x, 3C90x).
> 
> mike

My latest experiences were with the 2.2.2 PAO install floppy from 
www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO and a silent network w/ a SMC DEC21040 on the 
other end of an ftp install :-(

I've never had much luck w/ 3com :-(

Of course my mileage may vary on my 2.2-STABLE laptop.  I haven't 
measured throughput in a while (the 200k/s install was on a friends 
machine last weekend).

-- 
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