Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:17:42 +0000 From: Chris Howells <howells@kde.org> To: freebsd-questions@Freebsd.org Subject: Re: lan bandwidth issue Message-ID: <200311061317.52425.howells@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <Sea2-F26IAdigQDzBE600077a74@hotmail.com> References: <Sea2-F26IAdigQDzBE600077a74@hotmail.com>
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=2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wednesday 05 November 2003 11:25, silent slim wrote: > i'd like the network to go at 100Mbps since both cards could be able too > and the current speeds are laughable. The RealTek 8139 (rl0 and rl1) are pretty shitty network cards, the cheapes= t=20 available (I can buy them for GBP =A32, about USD $3). I only use them to=20 connect my ADSL modem to my firewall because they're so cheap and performan= ce=20 is not an issue there. You'll almost certainly get much better performance with some more expensiv= e=20 3Com or Intel cards. That may not be the only bottleneck of course..... =2D --=20 Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP ID: 0x33795A2C KDE/Qt/C++/PHP Developer: http://www.kde.org =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/qkoAF8Iu1zN5WiwRAj7JAJ9iryu0G99JYmyL8GXxICoF9ctjxwCfZWCy Ha6s3pG71jZMB+UyclFTmA8=3D =3D+QIe =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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