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Date:      Thu, 01 Feb 1996 15:51:02 +0000
From:      Matt Thomas <matt@lkg.dec.com>
To:        Michael Vernick <vernick@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc:        hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 100-Mbit Ethernet cards 
Message-ID:  <199602011551.PAA21359@whydos.lkg.dec.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 1996 08:33:46 EST." <199602011333.IAA26697@cs.sunysb.edu> 

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In  <199602011333.IAA26697@cs.sunysb.edu> , you wrote:

> >   The SMC 9332 cards (based on DEC DC21140) work quite well - I use
> >them here. I wrote a driver for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B
> >recently, and it also works quite well.
> 
> >From a recent Network Computing performance test, the SMC cards are
> one of the slowest 100Mbps on the market.  Maximum performance is only
> about 70Mbps.  I believe (I don't have the article in front of me)
> that the Intel cards are on the faster side, up around 80-85Mbps.

Well, I guess the 85+Mb/s I get is just my imagination...  


Matt Thomas               Internet:   matt@3am-software.com
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