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Date:      11 Jun 2001 23:29:42 EST
From:      "Mark Sergeant" <msergeant@snsonline.net>
To:        "Ilya" <mail@krel.org>, "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: lan speed
Message-ID:  <200106120429.f5C4ThX01135@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net>
In-Reply-To: <001601c0f2f4$f2e379b0$0100a8c0@ilya>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106102120590.37575-100000@musicman.com> <005f01c0f216$2d0553a0$0100a8c0@ilya> <03a201c0f21a$33bd0130$0200a8c0@mark2> <001601c0f2f4$f2e379b0$0100a8c0@ilya>

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reason for scp's slowness is cpu over head you may want to try scp -c blowfish
to improve scp speeds.
And yes 1mb/s is standard for 10baseT

Cheers,

Mark

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 00:05:42 -0400, Ilya said:

> here is what happens:
>  I did some testing with various combinations of settings and got very
>  interesting results:
>  win lap to desktop (with matronix card) 10/h 160kb
>  windows laptop to windows desktop (Intel ether expr pro) at 10/h 900kb/s
>  
>  so I switched desktop card, than I switched bsd card (from 3com 905c to
>  Intel) , got lots of increase again. but unstable, than switched 8 port 3com
>  10/100 hub with a 5 port old lynksys 10mb hub, and got stable 900kb-1mb
>  performance on all boxes. So it actually boils down to hardware ;)
>  
>  the only problem I have now is that scp  is still at 200-500kb, while ftp is
>  solid 1mb, any explanation for that one?
>  
>  thank you for your help.
>  
>  
>  PS is 1mb/s what am supposed to get from 10baseT network cards/hubs?
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Mark Sergeant
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