Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 16:41:08 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: jdl@chromatic.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow throughput Message-ID: <199510192341.QAA00245@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Oct 95 17:05:19 CDT." <199510192205.RAA15051@chrome.jdl.com>
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>OK, it's pretty clear now that I might have a mysteriously slow component >to my system's network (?) throughput. How do I find it? I've got ISDN, >usually at 64kb/sec but BOND-able to 128kb/sec connected to a pipeline-50 >which is spewing ethernet to a 10BaseT hub. My machine is on the hub >with one other machine now. I've got a Linksys Ether 16 NE2000 card >hanging off the ISA bus. > >At 64k ftp suggests a sustained rate of about: > 41539 bytes received in 23 seconds (1.8 Kbytes/s) > 1936621 bytes received in 8.9e+02 seconds (2.1 Kbytes/s) Yuck. >It is somewhat slow, isn't it? Yes. >What's the slow part of this equation? ISDN, P-50, ether, ISA, or >writing to my IDE disks (WD 31000)? None of the above? Seriously, none of those components should be causing such low performance. I would guess that your ISP is just slow? -DG
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