From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jul 17 16:50:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from venus.GAIANET.NET (venus.GAIANET.NET [207.211.200.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BD3C14F3A for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:50:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by venus.GAIANET.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA18904; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:49:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@venus.GAIANET.NET) Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:49:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: Karl Pielorz Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, tim@storm.digital-rain.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? In-Reply-To: <37911557.8B0A5293@tdx.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > Testing after the dust has settled and while it is in use is > > different since conditions do change. The testers only tests for > > continuity, not the impedance or any other electrical properties of the > > cable. > > The decent testers (such as a professional cable installing friend of mine > uses) do a full range of tests, at both 10Mbs and 100Mbs speed, including > cross talk, attenuation + a host of other things. The customers gets a > certificate _per_ connection, listing all the details... The decent testers > use proper TDR techniques to do a full range of testing, more than just "The > wires conduct, and their in the right order at both ends" :-) Heh, must be one of those $4000 Fluke testers or something. I mean cables should be tested prior to installing but you don't actually know the characteristics while the cable is in real use is what I'm saying. :-) > > > Fastest I've seen on my setup (doing anything useful) is around 9Mb/sec going > > > from my WinNT box (with Intel Pro 100B) to my FreeBSD -current box (also with > > > Pro 100B). > > > > Hmmm, how large of a file do you have to transfer to see the max > > speed? > > Typically around 2Gb's... I do a lot of DVR work, so I always have large files > kicking around :-) I could use one of those... =) > > What about from FreeBSD to FreeBSD? =) > > Don't have two boxes to test from... I've toyed with replacing my current NT > install with FreeBSD, I guess I just love Delphi too much :-) [hence need > Win32 :)] + The company database runs only under Win32 so far... Heh. Wouldn't it be nice if Delphi was available for FreeBSD or binary compable with something FreeBSD emulates? :-) > This is getting off-topic for -hackers - if you want to chat we should either > move it somewhere more appropriate - or personal replies only :-) That's a good idea... That's why it's been moved to -chat in this reply =) Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message