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Subject: Re: tx Rates
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.961022101226.12303A-100000@calvino> from hmmm at "Oct 22, 96 10:16:59 am"
To: hmmm@alaska.net (hmmm)
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:48:30 -0500 (CDT)
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From: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson)
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in the last episode, hmmm said:
> 
> TX rates are very bogus!  any comments?
> 
> for example, an FTP operation just reported:
> 
> 15056 bytes transferred in 0.02 seconds (848.67 Kbytes/s)
> 
> firstly - ain't nothing happening in 0.02 seconds!
> second  - 848K/second ?  i DON'T think so !!!

That's an average transfer rate for a 10mbit/s network.  What network
card do you have?  What speed were you expecting?  What machine were
you connecting to?  What file was transferred?

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com