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CAPT Ian Brace wrote:
> 
> 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.

Here is a couple problems:

1) NE 2100 is not the best card out there in terms of performance,
3COM's cards require a lot less CPU load.

2) I suspect your problem is the 386 that is serving. I have a Cyrix 166
with a PCI based ethernet card (Dec 21141) and I routinely get ftp
transfers out or in to this box on the order of 600 Kbytes per second or
more depending how loaded our network is. On the otherhand NFS writes go
at 200 Kbytes or less and AFS is somewhere in between. SAMBA runs
a little bit better than NFS. If you are running Windows 95 and Linux
why not use Samba and Microsoft networking. That works beautifully.

Best regards and good Luck.

Bora


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Bora A. Akyol                                 
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Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
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