From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 5:55:34 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 68D3B37B699 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 05:55:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from [209.197.156.33] ([209.197.156.33]) by smtp2.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id G4UBY800.S4P; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:54:08 -0700 From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: xuc@mcbi-34.med.nyu.edu Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:13:53 -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: <20001130135526.68D3B37B699@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29 Nov 00 at 18:28, Chen Xu wrote: >* Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net> [001129 18:14]: >> 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 > >I have a similar setup like yours. My ftp will get ~920Kbytes/sec. I >think you might want to set the media for the NIC. > >-- >Chen Xu xuchen66@yahoo.com, xuc@saturn.med.nyu.edu >---- See complete header for Organization ------- I guess I have to find out if either my 3c509B or Compaq Netflex support "media". I know that I can set the 3c509B to full duplex, but I'm not sure about the Compaq NIC -- no docs for it at Compaq. Later..... -duke Calgary,Alberta, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message