Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 20:37:33 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Adept <adept@cep.yale.edu>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, William Bulley <web@merit.edu>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C589 performance (was Re: obtaining 3COM 3C589C PC-CARDs ) Message-ID: <199710151937.UAA18033@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Oct 1997 22:34:45 %2B0930." <199710151304.WAA00569@word.smith.net.au>
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> > > I'll gladly swap a 3c589c for any of the PAO supported PCCARD > > > network cards (see http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO). My impression > > > of their performance is somewhat lacking (~200k/sec on average). > > > > Woah!? > > > > I 've done some benchmarking and I'm getting on my Thinkpad 701C something > > like 700K/sec with my 3C589B. > > On a silent network, their throughput is fine. Unfortunately, it > appears that the '589 suffers from similar problems to other 3Com cards > on networks with other traffic; I see transfers out of this system as > slow as 50K/sec on a lightly to moderately loaded network. Others have > reported similar experiences with other cards (3C509, 3C59x, 3C90x). > > mike My latest experiences were with the 2.2.2 PAO install floppy from www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO and a silent network w/ a SMC DEC21040 on the other end of an ftp install :-( I've never had much luck w/ 3com :-( Of course my mileage may vary on my 2.2-STABLE laptop. I haven't measured throughput in a while (the 200k/s install was on a friends machine last weekend). -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <bri@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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