From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 6:38: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shark.flips.net (shark.flips.net [208.214.176.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A84D37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:38:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from sf_pdc.schaefer-fagan (05-059.050.popsite.net [64.24.145.59]) by shark.flips.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-60222U2500L250S0V35) with ESMTP id net; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:53:09 -0500 Received: by sf_pdc with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:33:24 -0500 Message-ID: From: bob@sfcei.com To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ftp transfer rates on my LAN Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:33:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just my .02 here. IIRC, Windows seems to max out around 1472 for the MTU, otherwise there are lots of collisions on the net. I set the MTU on my FBSD box to 1472 and no collisions. This may affect your throughput, if only marginally. Bob "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. 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message