Other, 450MHz Pentiums get 20-40MB/min on that part of the network.
The reason I ask is that another slow (90MHz?) Pentium that I put in
a new network card and reinstalled the system only gets around 3
MB/min.
>
>Depends on the network, the tape drive being backed up to/computer
>doing the backing up and what the P90 is doing or if it has any
>screwy network settings. 1.5 MB/min seems a little slow but that
>may be what your setup does. I don't have any machines that slow
>being backed up but for comparison I have a PII 366 over 10BT backed
>up to a Sony DDS-3 SDT9000 and I get about 24 MB/min. I figure
>anything below 12-15 MB/min and you should be looking around to see
>where the bottleneck is. I have another machine, P150, that gets
>about 13 MB/min across the same network to the same drive but the I
>know the bottleneck is the part of the network it is on (it's dirt
>slow (sub-Localtalk speed)). That will be fixed once the 100BT
>network is up and running and I should see a dramatic speed increase
>for that machine. The limitation will then become the tape drive.
>When I compare speeds for the DDS-3 drive and a the DDS drive, there
>is a great speed difference. I don't remember what the speed is
>that I get for the DDS drive.
.................
Owen Watson
at home in Wellington, New Zealand
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