Slow Ethernet: Linux -> Win 95?

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From: CAPT Ian Brace
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 00:00

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I have assembled a small LAN using ne2100 ethernet cards, with a Linux
box as a gateway to the other machines, which are Win 95.  I tried to
download a file from the Linux box to a Win 95 machine and the transfer
rate was around 60 kbps.  This seems awfully slow for a 10 Mbps LAN
which only had two machines on it at the time!!

It is 10Base2 (Thin coax) and yes I did have each end terminated with a
50 ohm terminator.  I even removed a terminator during the transfer just
to see what would happen and...it stopped. (surprise surprise)

Can anyone suggest why it was so slow?  I must admit that the Linux box
was a 386 DX33 running X-Window, Netscape, Apache on ports 80 and 8080
and at the moment I suspect the delay was just in the 386 servicing
ftp.d amongst everything else....but I would appreciate any other
suggestions.

Thanks,

Ian.

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From: CAPT Ian Brace <ibrace@niw.cerberus.navy.gov.au>
Subject: Slow Ethernet: Linux -> Win 95?
Date: 1997/03/20
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