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Date:      Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:47:13 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   USB Ethernet (kue) Throughput
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207231738450.89136-100000@wonkity.com>

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Device: Netgear EA101 USB-to-Ethernet adapter.  It's known to work with
FreeBSD; for $9 new, how could I go wrong?

A Windows notebook was available for the first test (Windows 98, AMD
K6-2 333).  Getting a file from a FreeBSD FTP server, it managed
875K/sec.

On a similar notebook (Toshiba PII-300) running FreeBSD 4.6-Stable,
getting the same file from the same server, the best it could do was
273K/sec.

Maybe just a difference in the machines?  The Windows version may use
100% CPU. 8-)  Is there something that can be tuned for the kue
driver?  There aren't any media options; it's half-duplex, 10BaseT.

(Incidentally, this unit isn't much larger than the standard
Ethernet "dongle" cable.  Yet you don't have to fight with PCCard
interrupts or lose a PCCard slot.)

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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