On 2012-05-29, David Diggles <da...@elven.com.au> wrote: > I would love to get 3MB/s, but maybe 1.8MB/s is the limit of the > realtek NIC.
There are various different realtek-based nics. rl(4) are generally quite poor and need a fair bit of CPU power to drive. re(4) should be a bit better. But Geode is slow anyway especially for I/O, and 300MHz is not a particularly fast Geode. 1.8MB/s (~14Mb/s) seems a bit slow but not out of the realms of possibility especially if it's rl not re. > I have just ordered an Atom 1.8GHz with Gigabit Intel NICs, should > be more than good enough as an upgrade? I may upgrade my link from > 30Mbit to 100Mbit in future, I would expect the Atom to handle this. Should be a fair bit better.
