>Now, I just noticed the transfer rates everyone is quoting: 8Kb, 25Kb, 200Kb,
>300Kb, 500Kb. The only impressive number here is 500Kb and that is
>by Local Talk
>standards which is a maximum transfer rate of 230.4Kbps. So, I think
>you guys are
>getting your numbers from some strange place (or not). 10bT Ethernet
>is quite a
>bit faster than 230.4Kbps (which is why Local Talk isn't the
>industry standard),
>which is about the same as 1.8 megabits. Whereas 10bT is 10 megabits
>or 1280Kb,
>100bT (100 megabits) is 12,800Kb or 12.6MB. Wow!
Erm... what? You're getting confused with all those numbers, aren't
you? 230.4 kbps is the same as 1.8 megabits? 3=5? black=white?
BTW, what I was talking about were KB/s, not K-bit/s. I just tried it
again, I started BetterTelnet which has a built-in FTP-server (just a
small one, but good enough) on one machine and Anarchie on the other
and sent a 10MB file. Got transfer rates of more than 300KB
sustained, often more than 400KB/s. I also checked the speed of my
SE/30 running NetBSD, it went up to 200KB/s.
>Macs speaking the same language, that 33Mhz bus is having a stifling effect on
>Steffen's Duo's ability to achieve the the maximum rate possible by
>well over 3
>quarters of it's technical capacity (assuming he's using a 10bT card, it's far
>worse if he's using a 100bT card in the Dock). While I am not certain of the
You'll never get 1MB/s over a 10BT connection, forget this math. That
would be same as if I'd go to the US and wonder why all your cars are
driving at a max of 65 mph though they were capable of driving about
as twice as fast... it just doesn't work!
Usual transfer rates on 100BT are about 20-30 mbit/s, far away from
the 10 times as good connection speed you could expect from comparing
"10BT" to "100BT".
I had transfer rates on a peer-to-peer connection between a PCI
PowerMac and some PCs of about 600-700KB/s, so the 300-400KB/s I get
with the Duo are pretty good considering the older architecture. I
never said that the NuBus board doesn't slow down the rates, I said
it won't slow down a cable modem to less than 25K/s just because of
the Ethernet transfer rate.
Steffen
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