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Subject: Re: BNC netcards?
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At 04:36 PM 5/16/97 -0400, Al wrote:
>        I just recently installed a genuine NE2000 16 bit novell BNC card in
>a freebsd box and an 8 bit NE1000 in my win95 box, they are both 10mbps
>right? but my transfer rate varies from 140k per second down to like 40k
>between machines, and they are only seperated by a 15 foot cable with
>terminators on the end.

Basic Math:

8-bit NE1000 + Win95 = low_throughput.

i'm surprised that Win95 even supports it!

db