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Subject: Re: Problems with the xl driver or 3Com cards?
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On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 04:59  PM, Josh Paetzel wrote:
>
> You really have more issues than that one card.  A pair of reasonably
> fast PC's on a 100tx network should get from 9-10.5M/sec transfer
> rates.  Your other boxes only doing 5 is a problem as well.  I've seen
> this issue over and over again with boxes that were reinstalled, 
> network
> cards, ports, cables, switches and anything else we could think of
> swapped around.  I joke that some ATX cases are only rated for certain
> 100tx transfer rates.
>
> In your specific case, what are the specs on the machine?  I can 
> imagine
> that a P133 with an old 425 meg IDE drive not being able to saturate a
> 100TX network.
>
> Josh

The FreeBSD machine is an AMD K6-2/500 with a 7200 rpm drive. The other 
machines are a Powermac G4 with Mac OS X, and a Celeron 1.2GHz with 
Windows XP.

You've seen the issue over and over again? Well, that makes me feel a 
little better. :)  Any   solutions you've seen over and over again?

- Matt


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