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From: Jonathon Doran <doranj@Colorado.EDU>
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Subject: Re: makign web pages load fast
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In-Reply-To: <199906192317.RAA19769@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> from "Jonathon Doran" at Jun 19, 99 05:17:23 pm
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> Have you measured your network throughput?  At the risk of telling you something
> you may already know, you will not get 10Mb over that line.  (And its Mb not
> MB, 10-megabit per second if you are using regular ethernet).  I get about
> 500KB/sec over my ethernet -- 1M file in 2 seconds.  This seems reasonable
> to me.  The performance curve for ethernet predicts about 5Mb transfers.

I hate to follow up my own message... but I measured this from my notebook
using a PCCard.  Remeasuring from a desktop gives me 1M/sec.  Still less
than a disk drive.

Jon Doran


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