From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 5:55:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.cybersurf.net (unknown [209.197.145.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E41F37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 05:55:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from [209.197.156.33] ([209.197.156.33]) by smtp2.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id G4UBYB00.U6G; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:54:11 -0700 From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: David Kelly Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:43:54 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: ftp transfer rates on my LAN Reply-To: 01031149@3web.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.50 Message-Id: <20001130135528.9E41F37B401@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29 Nov 00 at 17:52, David Kelly wrote: >"Duke Normandin" writes: >> 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.... > >Its not unusually low, but it is about 1/3 what 10baseT can do. After >pushing the file, try pulling another copy (to another filename) back. That's what I kinda thought, a bit slow. That CAT5e(nhanced) stuff has a bandwidth of 100Mbps though, so my poor results are not from using a dog of a cable. I'll try pulling the file back as you suggest, for hellery. >To your credit, your file was large enough to be a good test. Often >newbies test on 100k files or something equally trivial. > >My gut feel is the Win95 machine is not going to run any faster. Then >again you don't say what CPU's are used. 486-66 20M = win95 486-66 32M = FBSD3.3R >Between two FreeBSD 4.1 machines (P-III 450 and 500) on a full duplex >100baseT switch I shot a copy of the 4.1-RELEASE ISO (~650MB) across at >over 8MB/sec. Later played with a 17MB file and got the same on the >first transfer but then pulling it back while it was probably still in >cache on the other 128MB machine resulted in 11MB/sec. fxp0 ethernet on >both ends. I guess that I can't expect a VW to motor along the Autobahn at the same rate as Porsche. ;,) >Replacing one of the P-III's with an old AMD 5x86/133, 32MB, FreeBSD >3.5, and a 10/100 de0 ethernet, maxed out at 1.5MB/sec. Well, I should then be grateful for the transfer rate that I am getting. What a hell of drop you got. As suggested, I'm going to try setting the media (in one NIC anyway) and both to full-duplex if my Compaq NIC can do it. Thanks.... -duke Calgary,Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message