I have a 10Mbps connection to my Linux system, and I got over 900K per
second. I think there must be something seriously wrong with your setup!
900k per second on 10Mbps is about 75% efficiency and is very good. We had
a 10/100 Mbps hub at the last place I worked that displayed network usage,
and when transferring system images over the network (100Mbps), it took
about 3 machines to bring the connection usage up to 80%. So your
connection is at about 16% efficiency which is a fair bit below what it
should be. I think 10Mbps cards have a better efficiency though which would
be why mine was at 75% efficiency.
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Erico Freitas
Sent: August 13, 1999 12:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: benchmarking eth card
Hello,
I have another question for this list. I have two computers connected,
this Linux 2.2.10 box and a Win95 thing via two identical 10/100Mbps Lynksys
cards (the linux is using the tulip driver from the manufacturer's web
site).
I've connected them together using a cross-over cable (it used to be a
straight through cable that I crossed over). I know I should have a hub but
I
don't have money for a 100Mpbs hub at the time.
I tested the speed of the link by using Netscape to download a file from
the Linux machine (running Apache) to the Win95 machine (The file was the
X11
directory tarred) and the speed of the link peaked at 1.6M/s.
Is this the expected throuput for such a configuration? Would I benefit
from having the computers connected to a hub? Or even from buying a
premanufactured cross-over cable?
Any suggestions welcomed :)
Thanks,
--Erico.
Please keep your hands off the secretary's reproducing equipment.
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