From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 11 00:31:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFCF16A421 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:31:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A6813C455 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:31:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca) Received: from pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.177]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JKZ007M7O4YH1E0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:31:46 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.152]) by pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JKZ00GEMO4VRQS0@pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:31:45 -0600 (MDT) Received: from proven.lan ([24.85.241.34]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JKZ00HALO4R32I1@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:31:43 -0600 (MDT) Received: from proven.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by proven.lan (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6B0VctP039175 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:31:38 -0700 (PDT envelope-from fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by proven.lan (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l6B0Vcl8039174 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:31:38 -0700 (PDT envelope-from fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:31:37 -0700 From: Norbert Papke In-reply-to: <469393CC.9070802@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200707101731.38231.fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca> Organization: Archaeological Filing MIME-version: 1.0 References: <469393CC.9070802@broadpark.no> X-Authentication-warning: proven.lan: npapke set sender to fbsd-ml@scrapper.ca using -f User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Help! FreeBSD: 88.78 KBps, Linux: 624.95 KBps X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:31:46 -0000 On July 10, 2007, Kyrre Nyg=E5rd wrote: > Hello. > > My friend is switching to Linux because FreeBSD is failing on him. > > When downloading a file from a FreeBSD box and a Linux box on the same > network, the FreeBSD box got 88.78 KBps whereas the Linux got 624.95 > Kbps. I have no idea what's wrong, but my man isn't really into good > information design (e.g. taking something complex and making it easy), > so his system is a mess. Maybe some of you can help me locate where the > problem's at? Are we comparing apples to oranges? 88.78 KBps (kilo bytes per second) =3D 710.24 Kbps (kilo bits per second) If this is true, then the FreeBSD box is faster :) Cheers.