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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Fw: FreeBSD firewall questions
In-Reply-To: <01bd377a$aaa63900$b221dccc@subzero.thebestisp.com> from Joe at "Feb 11, 98 11:54:22 pm"
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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 15:54:48 -0800 (PST)
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Joe wrote:
> IF YOU DO NOT NEED TO CONNECT MORE THAN TWO COMPUTERS DO NOT USE A HUB! (did
> the caps get your 'tension?) the reasons are simple 1 a hub costs money and
> if you were into spending money you wouldn't be using freebsd you'd be
> dealing (and spending a fortune for the same or less effect) with a
> Microsoft or comperable product. And second you can't expect to get better
> that 60%(+-) ie: 6Mbps rather than 10Mbps throughput so you are paying for
> latency and collissions..Just my two cents..

	shhhhh.,......dont tell that to my linksys pcmcia 10baset card,
	smc 8 port ethernet hub, and smc pci card.

	i am getting over 9Mbps over utp.
jmb

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