From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 1 21:45:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C351065679 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2010 21:45:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcw@speakeasy.net) Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 258B48FC1C for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2010 21:45:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31886 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2010 21:18:45 -0000 Received: from dsl081-163-121.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO w20.stradamotorsports.com) (jcw@[64.81.163.121]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 1 Aug 2010 21:18:45 -0000 Message-ID: <4C55E4B5.7000201@speakeasy.net> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:18:45 -0700 From: "Jason C. Wells" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100630 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Typical Network Performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:45:27 -0000 I have a 100 mbps (12,207 KiB/s) home LAN in full-duplex. A 1 MiB file transfers at 146.7 KiB/s via wput. The same file transfers at 91.34 KiB/s via samba. That's less than 1% of available transfer rate. Seems like my transfers are slow. I do better than that when installing via the internet. Does the FTP performance compared to available bandwidth seem right? Is the relative performance of samba to FTP right? I read a couple quick links on the net which said, "It's complicated." Thanks, Jason C. Wells