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Date:      Thu, 19 Oct 1995 16:41:08 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        jdl@chromatic.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Slow throughput 
Message-ID:  <199510192341.QAA00245@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Oct 95 17:05:19 CDT." <199510192205.RAA15051@chrome.jdl.com> 

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>OK, it's pretty clear now that I might have a mysteriously slow component
>to my system's network (?) throughput.  How do I find it?  I've got ISDN,
>usually at 64kb/sec but BOND-able to 128kb/sec connected to a pipeline-50
>which is spewing ethernet to a 10BaseT hub.  My machine is on the hub
>with one other machine now.  I've got a Linksys Ether 16 NE2000 card
>hanging off the ISA bus.
>
>At 64k ftp suggests a sustained rate of about:
>      41539 bytes received in 23 seconds (1.8 Kbytes/s)
>    1936621 bytes received in 8.9e+02 seconds (2.1 Kbytes/s)

   Yuck.

>It is somewhat slow, isn't it?

  Yes.

>What's the slow part of this equation?  ISDN, P-50, ether, ISA, or
>writing to my IDE disks (WD 31000)?

   None of the above? Seriously, none of those components should be causing
such low performance. I would guess that your ISP is just slow?

-DG



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