RE: CPU speed vs. Network speed?

2000-08-21 Thread Hyde, Glenna M.
Jon Gardner > Reply To: retro-talk > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 3:56 PM > To: retro-talk > Subject: Re: CPU speed vs. Network speed? > > on 8/16/2000 11:22 AM, Harry Mueller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > What would give better performance,

Re: CPU speed vs. Network speed?

2000-08-17 Thread Hunter Parrot
At 6:27 PM -0700 8/16/00, Pat Lee wrote: >>> What would give better performance, a G3 upgrade to the 6100 or a 100 >>> base T card. I can only do one since the 6100 only has one slot. >> >> Go with the G3 upgrade. The 6100 bus is too slow to benefit from a 100Mbps >> Ethernet card, but the G3 card

Re: CPU speed vs. Network speed?

2000-08-16 Thread Pat Lee
>> What would give better performance, a G3 upgrade to the 6100 or a 100 >> base T card. I can only do one since the 6100 only has one slot. > > Go with the G3 upgrade. The 6100 bus is too slow to benefit from a 100Mbps > Ethernet card, but the G3 card will at least allow it to maximize the > ex

Re: CPU speed vs. Network speed?

2000-08-16 Thread Jon Gardner
on 8/16/2000 11:22 AM, Harry Mueller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What would give better performance, a G3 upgrade to the 6100 or a 100 > base T card. I can only do one since the 6100 only has one slot. Go with the G3 upgrade. The 6100 bus is too slow to benefit from a 100Mbps Ethernet card, bu

Re: CPU speed vs. Network speed?

2000-08-16 Thread David Ross
> > What would give better performance, a G3 upgrade to the 6100 or a 100 > > base T card. I can only do one since the 6100 only has one slot. A 100 base T card in a NuBus adapter on a 6100 will only go about 4 times as fast as the 10baseT connection. The drivers, the bus, and the 6100 just aren'

Re: CPU speed vs. Network speed?

2000-08-16 Thread Matt Barkdull
>Greetings, > > I just got off the telephone with a client who was asking me >to upgrade their backup system. They are currently using retrospect >4.3 on a Mac IIsi via 10BT on a switched 10/100 ethernet (client 10, >servers 100)to their DDS3 tape drive. It seems that the IIsi is >dying

Re: CPU speed vs. Network speed?

2000-08-16 Thread Chuck Hornish
Harry Mueller wrote: > > Greetings, > > I just got off the telephone with a client who was asking me > to upgrade their backup system. They are currently using retrospect > 4.3 on a Mac IIsi via 10BT on a switched 10/100 ethernet (client 10, > servers 100)to their DDS3 tape drive. It see

Re: CPU speed vs. Network speed?

2000-08-16 Thread Daniel Knight
>What would give better performance, a G3 upgrade to the 6100 or a 100 >base T card. I can only do one since the 6100 only has one slot. Either will probably cost more than the computer is worth. Set up the 6100 as is to see where the bottleneck is. If it's the network, 10Base-T tops out at ab

Re: CPU speed vs. Network speed?

2000-08-16 Thread andrew
The 6100 has notorious problems with its built-in ethernet, so a 100-baseT card is the way to go. - Original Message - From: "Harry Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 12:22 PM Subj

CPU speed vs. Network speed?

2000-08-16 Thread Harry Mueller
Greetings, I just got off the telephone with a client who was asking me to upgrade their backup system. They are currently using retrospect 4.3 on a Mac IIsi via 10BT on a switched 10/100 ethernet (client 10, servers 100)to their DDS3 tape drive. It seems that the IIsi is dying rather