Subject: RE: [netatalk-admins] AS IP speeds
From: Bob Atkins (bob@cherokee.digilink.net)
Date: Mon Jan 11 1999 - 13:31:46 EST
Thomas,
> > I have found through considerable experimentation that most G3/300
> > systems can't do more than 380-420KBytes/sec sustained transfer rates
> > using ftp to/from a local SPARC/Solaris server over a 10BT LAN. I can
> > assure you that SPARC to SPARC the same file can be moved at
> > 995-1000KBytes/sec over the same 10BT LAN segment essentially achieving
> > saturation of the segment. Mac ethernet speeds have never been very
> > good and I have *never* seen any MacIntosh even come close to
> > saturating a 10BT ethernet the way a SPARC can or even a decent (200MHz
> > PII) PC can (885-900KBytes/sec).
>
> Well, I beg to differ... nothing here being greatly scientific but I've see
> a 604e 225Mhz send around 950 k/sec over ip (ftp) to a P75 on 10BT now the
> difference is that... The 604e 225 mhz was running BeOS, and the P75 was
> running linux... The MacOS doesn't seem to allow for saturation... the
> 95Mbps the ASIP 6 tests that apple does on 100bt seem... unreal..
>
I never said that the Mac *hardware* wasn't capable of saturating an
ethernet. Clearly a fully multitasking BeOS that has properly written
networking capabilities will be able to do much more with the G3
hardware or any other hardware for that matter. Don't get me started on
the way the MacOS wastes the underlying hardware... :(
--- Bob > That was my 2 cents. > Thomas Dorr > >
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