[lug] NIC Speed

[Timothy C. Klein]

* Bear Giles (bgiles at coyotesong.com) wrote:
> If you want to know what your performance is, not what mode your NIC
> is in, a lot of people recommend "bing".  It will collect statistics
> over a period of time and give you both average and extreme cases.

Thanks, I will try this.

> On my system, I'm seeing around 35 Mbps on the LAN (which isn't
> surprising since I've since learned that many networking gods think
> that 3Com cards are junk despite their reputation), and probably
> something around 800kbps to some well-connected sites via the cable
> modem.

Hmm, I will have to test this.  I have 3 3Com cards (got two free from
Qwerst with my DSL routers, I bought one).  I also have two cards that I
think were branded Sohoware, but are based on the Dec tulip chips.  I
also have something based on the Via-Rhine chipset.  I will have to
benchmark them all.  It'll be interesting if the 3Com's are slower --
not only did the cost 5x as much (~ $20 vs ~ $100 ), the 3Com also has a
PCB about twice as big, and has conisiderably more silicon on it.
Wouldn't that be odd?  Bigger, more expensive, and slower!  Ha.  I'll
soon find out.

Tim
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