On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:41:35PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood said:
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:40:01PM +1200, Richard Naylor wrote:
Dick Smith. Maybe decent was the qualifer......I think we pay $35 for D-Link.
The only D-Link cards I've ever used are 530TX or something. They are not even close to what I call decent.
the 530TX's are pretty old
What chipset do the ones you have use?
the 538TX's are RTL8139C - they'll stand 11.5MByte's without difficulty (that's ftp-server -> router -> router -> ftp-client , with RTL8139C's on the routers, various odd cards at either end along the way, so who knows where the bottleneck is). I guess if you want 12MB/s, then you get what you pay for, but once you get up to that level then driver and OS variations can make as much difference as card selection.
Last time I shifted a file from the edit pc to the server (both on GbE) it took 6 minutes for 1.6 Gig. I wonder if I can get a GbE PC card for the laptop ?
Ah.. this is why I say decent card. I expect a 100mbps card to run at 100mbps or very near to it. 1.6G in 6 minutes, that's 4.5 megabytes/s or so? Earlier this year I did some testing or various NICs and could sustain over 12 megabytes/s for several hours, even when this data came off a disk one one machine and onto a disk on another machine.
I'd agree that richard's gigE performance sounds terrible, I'd suspect it's cause he insists upon putting fast cards in crap old gear. We all know that gigE at home is only for pose value :-).
Oh, and no --- you cannot get GE for laptops, I've tried. As soon as you can, I want it though. I *need* it.
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