Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price

[Wes Peters]

Sergey Babkin wrote:
> 
> 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 

On a switch running full duplex on all ports, you should be able to get
roughly 14 x 8MB/s with the same test.  I'll let you know how it goes
Monday night after I beat it up in the lab at work.

-- 
            "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                           http://softweyr.com/


To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message