From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 26 10: 4:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shiba.d.home.dynas.se (cns9-224-242.cm.starport.se [193.150.224.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A97B337BB7F for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 10:04:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko@shiba.d.home.dynas.se) Received: (from mikko@localhost) by shiba.d.home.dynas.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01067; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 19:04:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 19:04:17 +0100 (CET) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= X-Sender: mikko@shiba.d.home.dynas.se To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: USB NIC speed? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: mikko@dynas.se X-MIME-Autoconverted: to 8bit by snemail 0.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Seeing that -current now supports USB network devices, I got a Linksys 100TX "dongle". Question is: what kind of speed is reasonable to expect with this thing? Some unsophisticated tests show that I get around 3.7 Mbit/sec under FreeBSD, and about 5.5 Mbit/sec under Windogs98. This is on a Toshiba Portegé 3110CT (has a UHCI controller). The "fxp" device that comes with the machine can transfer over 8Mbit/sec over the same network (a fairly idle 10 Mbit segment). Is this as good as USB networking gets? Ok, I know that USB won't handle more than 12 Mbit, but right now it does not even reach one half that). At least the USB adapter is more comfortable for laptop use than the big ugly "docking station" thingie containing the fxp NIC :-) Just curious, /Mikko Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message