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Date:      Fri, 3 May 2002 19:04:39 -0400
From:      "E. J. Cerejo" <ecerejo@zapo.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Transfer speed
Message-ID:  <200205031904.39510.ecerejo@zapo.net>

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Subject: Re: Transfer speed
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 18:59:15 -0400
From: "E. J. Cerejo" <ecerejo@zapo.net>
To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>

On Friday 03 May 2002 18:53, you wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:47:01PM -0400, E. J. Cerejo wrote:
> > I have a box running FreeBSD and win2K and a laptop running win2k, when I 
have 
> > both of these machines connected to each other and if both are running 
win2k 
> > I can transfer files between them very fast for example 20 meg file will 
take 
> > seconds to transfer but I'm running FreeBSD and connect the laptop it will 
> > take forever to transfer a 20 meg file and I can see in gkrellm that it's 
> > only transfering at a rate of (more or less) 40 Kbs.  Does anyone have any 
> > idea why it is so slow?  Thanks
> 
> 
> Since you haven't even bothered to include the most elementary
> information in your question, like:
>   What version of FreeBSD are you using?

4.5 Stable

>   How are the computers connected with each other?

Nic cards 100 Mbs each

>   How are you transferring the files?

I'm using psftp in the windows machine

>   What is gkrellm, for those of us who are not familiar with it?

It's a sysutility for X and it can measure performance of various things like 
the modem and your nic card.

> then it is pretty much impossible to answer why the transfer is slow.

Sorry about that


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