From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 6 7:44:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc4.on.home.com (ha1.rdc4.on.home.com [24.2.9.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7FD437BD68 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 07:44:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cappy@cr173116-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com) Received: from cr173116-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com ([24.114.163.66]) by mail.rdc4.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.17 201-229-119) with ESMTP id <20000806144427.ZSHK14966.mail.rdc4.on.home.com@cr173116-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com> for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 07:44:27 -0700 Received: from localhost (cappy@localhost) by cr173116-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA38030 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 10:44:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cappy@cr173116-a.etob1.on.wave.home.com) Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 10:44:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Dennis Jun To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3Com 905B & Windows 98 transfer rates Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello! I've recently setup a lan at a friend's place consisting of 3 computers: 1 is FreeBSD (p 100) and 2 are Windows 98 SE (p 200 & p3 450). All of them have the 3Com 905B nics in them and he has a Netgear FS 105 switch 10/100. I tried transfering some files via ftp from each of the computers to each other. When i I transfered from FreeBSD to either of the Windows boxes (or the other way around), I only got about 1MBytes/sec, at best. When I transfered between the 2 Windows boxes, I got about 2MBytes/sec, at best. Now, I know i won't be able to hit 10MBytes/sec even though everything is 100Mb, however, those rates seem low. My Windows friends told me they get around 4-6MBytes/sec. Furthermore, on my own lan, when I transfer between my 2 FreeBSD boxes, I get about 4.5MBytes/sec (both with 3Com 905Bs and Netgear 10/100 switch). Furthermore, it is going at 100Mbit/sec and full duplex. I can see the lights and I checked with ifconfig -a and in control pane with Windows. What am I doing wrong? Anyone have any ideas? Much thanx in advance. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message