On 23-Apr-01, Jeffrey E. Harris wrote:
>
> Responding to one point from Fred...
>
>
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Fred Wright wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Aside from allowing more machines, hubs have the benefit of
>> providing LEDs to show activity, which can be very handy when
>> chasing problems. Activity LEDs on stations, when they exist at
>> all, are usually in some really inconvenient place. If you *know*
>> you'll be getting more machines later, by all means use the hub
>> from the start. 5-port hubs are only about $30 these days. The only
>> disadvantage is the inability to use full duplex, but it's pretty
>> rare to get a significant benefit from that, anyway (plus, older
>> Amiga Ethernet cards typically don't support it).
>>
>
> I bought a Linksys switch for about $40 after rebate, which supports
> 100Mb/Full Duplex. Unfortunately, the one test I ran at 100Mb/full
> duplex between two PCs (Windows based) resulted in a net transfer
> speed of about 1MB (yes MB) per second; stepping the post speed down
> to 10Mb/Half Duplex resulted in a transfer of about 500KB per
> second. I guess we get what we pay for!
An interesting experiment would be for you to install Linux on both
those PCs and try it again. I've been amazed to find that a 200 MHz
P2 running Linux is faster than a 877 MHz P3 running Windoze. System
overhead means a lot.
Dan Arico
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