Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan wrote:
> With an old isa-slot network card? That's pretty slow.
Actually, there are 2 ISA cards in it. It's a dual-homed host. It really
isn't all that bad. I have decent through-put, provided that the system
I'm connecting to isn't slow.
> With a special network card people could reach around 2 meg/sec
> thru ISA, but they built it themselves, and they didn't use
> tcp/ip (it's for a beowulf style matrix computer).
I've heard about these. However, I am not about to attempt to solder
together my own cards. I'm just not THAT good ;-)
> Anyway, I
> would suggest to use better network cards. Look around what you
> get though because some of them will perform even worse than
> what you have now. A good starting point would be the beowulf
> maiing list archive. Some of the "newer" 486 motherboards had
> PCI slots. Do you have that kind? Otherwise you probably have to
> upgrade if you want some increase in speed. Well, not very good
> news.
I wouldn't consider it BAD news, though. If I do upgrade, I can pick up
a low-end pentium (133-266)for under $100, and if I wanted to get
something on the higher end, I can build a 300MHz system for under $250.
The most expensive thing is a decent NIC.
Kenny
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