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Re: Question on performance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kristian Elof Soerensen)
Tue Aug 13 13:26:51 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 15:02:15 +0100 (GMT+0100)
From: Kristian Elof Soerensen <kris10an@internet.dk>
To: netmail <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <320A4962.1936F191@elecomm.net>
On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Emanuele Buttice wrote:
> I have never been able to get more than 500KB transfer rate between any
> of my PC's, Is this normal ?
>
> I have about 5 pc's running Linux 1.2.13 mostly P5's with >= 16meg Ram
> and ISA 3ccom 3c509TP cards. The network traffic is very light and my
> tests are done when no one is working. I have done transfers using ftp
> and tcpspray but the results are simular.
That's very normal, actually it's pretty high.
About 300KB/s is normal for a network in good condition, with some
traffic.
In no cases schould it be slover than that, and on a small network with
little or no traffic, schould you be able to see higher rates.
Getting near 10Mbit/s will only happen with absolutely no disturbing
traffic, and short exellent connections. Like two machines connected
without a hub.
In real world cases ethernet isn't a 10Mbit net, more like a 3-4 Mbit net.
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