From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 16 15:00:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00687 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:00:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00598 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:00:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id OAA29123; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:58:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id OAA05859; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:58:17 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id PAA06494; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:58:15 -0700 Message-ID: <3650AE05.5C5383B2@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:58:13 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom CC: Dj Browne , chad@DCFinc.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: D-Link DE620 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Is a direct-cable serial PPP link an option? At 115,200 bps, it's just > > about as fast as the parallel-port ethernet, if a little less convenient > > to setup. > > What are you smoking? 11.5 K bytes/sec is quite a bit slower than 120K > bytes/sec. Smoking? networks! The speed of the network link depends on what you're doing with it, not on the raw throughput. If he wants email and domain name lookups or something like that, he really won't notice much (any) difference between the two. If he's looking for network file sharing or transferring large files, of course the performance will differ. Faster transports don't always mean faster applications, but try explaining this to the gigabit ethernet true believers. ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message