From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jul 17 16:56:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F0A314C32 for ; Sat, 17 Jul 1999 16:56:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Kp) with ESMTP id AAA02538; Sun, 18 Jul 1999 00:56:15 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <379117F6.5836AD92@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 00:55:34 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vincent Poy Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poor ethernet performance? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Vincent Poy wrote: > > 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. :-) It is - with it's remote end as well... Extreemly expensive, but very 'cool'... And very precise :) You can't easily test the cable prior to installing - it normally comes in 300ft boxes! - But you can (and should) test it after it's been installed, and after you've followed the CAT-5 guidelines re. corners, luminaire avoidance etc :) > > > > > > 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... =) A 2gb file? - You could always FTP it from here? > Heh. Wouldn't it be nice if Delphi was available for FreeBSD or > binary compable with something FreeBSD emulates? :-) Yes, it would!... We (as in Unix) have the free Pascal compiler, which supports most (if not all) of the Sysutils unit, but it's a long way from being able to run on the bosses Windows desktop :-) Not that the boss is best friends with Windows at the moment (it crashes his machine about twice a day, and that's even under NT :-) >> 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 =) So I noticed... :-) Chat doesn't get used very often (not often enough some might say from some of the threads in -hackers/-current recently...) I often forget I'm subscribed at all :) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message