[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've got one currently and my FreeBSD box can do 3000-3300kBytes a second
> without any complaints..
>
> Full duplex has it's advantages, no doubt
I don't think that you realy need a switch to achieve
this speed on an empty network. With two machines
connected to a 3Com 24-port 100Mbps hub (simplex)
I had no problems achieving ~8MB/s on one FTP transfer
and over 4MB/s on each of two FTP transfers running
in opposite directions at the same time, when the
network is otherwise idle. Cheap hubs (including that
D-Link) tend to choke even at moverate load and lose
packets but good hubs have no such problem.
I've ran 14 FTP transmissions in parallel through 7
cards connected to this hub with quite good results,
the average of total speed was over 7.8MB/s (started
all transfers at once, looked at the time it took the
last transfer to finish, divided the total size of
all transfers by this time - so, because some of
the transfers finished earlier the peak speed was
higher).
> On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Wes Peters wrote:
>
> > Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > > Prices have fallen a lot in the last year. I'm happy to be able to
> > > get rid of my HUBs, I was constantly having to deal with packet loss
> > > when running saturation tests and never able to figure out what
> > > was causing it.
> >
> > I have a good reason to revive this thread. I thought anyone who followed
> > this conversation might want to know that one of the switches we dicussed,
> > the Netgear FS-105, is on a special at CompUSA right now -- THROUGH TOMORROW.
-SB
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