From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 21:55:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 70B3D37B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:55:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23227 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2000 06:55:14 +0100 Received: from bb-62-5-7-17.bb.tninet.se (HELO web1.tninet.se) (62.5.7.17) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 30 Nov 2000 06:55:14 +0100 From: Mark Rowlands Reply-To: mark.rowlands@minmail.net Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:51:32 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" To: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001129231405.C44C337B400@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20001129231405.C44C337B400@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ftp transfer rates on my LAN MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00113006513200.01128@web1.tninet.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 29 November 2000 23:59, Duke Normandin wrote: > I'm kinda like a monkey trying to copulate a football/soccer ball when it > comes to my new toy --- my mickey-mouse 10baseT LAN ;,) > > Anyway..... ftped my first file from win95 to 3.3R box. I'm curious about > the transfer rate that follows: > > 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'dr703.exe'. > 226 Transfer complete. > ftp: 6243908 bytes sent in 18.40Seconds 339.34Kbytes/sec. > > Is this an acceptable transfer rate? If it's not, is there anything that I > can do with my existing hardware - 3c509 Compaq Netflex ? > Would setting both to full duplex (if possible) help? Tia.... > > -duke > Calgary,Alberta, Canada what a wonderful word picture you paint! this seems somewhat tardy tho. I get 1100 kb/s from win9x -> freebsd over 10mbs with 5mb+ executables using the command line ftp client running in half duplex. You could try ensuring that whatever you select, both machines are set to the same settings. No autoselect/hardware default nonsense. I would also check you have installed the myriad of patches available for win95 and it's tcp/ip stack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message