- Dec 12, 2000
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Okay here's the deal. We currently have Charlotte RoadRunner service running through a Toshiba cable modem connected through an SMC Barricade 10/100 4-port router/hub. One connection goes to my dad's room, where he has a slow computer so I don't care about his access speed. One connection goes to my sister's room, where her iPAQ running Win2k averages between 200k-300k/s depending on the site, and her computer has a Compaq Netelligent 10/100 card. One connection goes to my bedroom, and the last is open for a notebook.
I manually switch my bedroom connection between 3 computers; an Alpha machine I use as an NT4/Linux server (3Com 10/100), a P3 500 machine (Win2k, 3Com 10/100) and an Athlon machine (WinME, dead 3Com 10/100.) In my room, the connection would always vary widely between 60k-250k, but averaging just a bit slower than ISDN speeds. I figured this was maybe due to some interference or faulty ethernet wiring in my bedroom wall (I have tried switching ports in the router to no avail.) Now the Athlon's NIC card was recently toasted somehow so I pulled out a spare Realtek 8139 to replace it. As soon as the drivers were installed I tested the net, and boy was I surprised!!!
WITHOUT any download accelerators, the new card was averaging between 250k-500k sustained (RoadRunner is only supposed to be a 300k connection!) With DAP4 running, I pulled the Quake3 Team Arena demo from happy puppy in about 9 minutes (120MB!!!!!) I was tempted to pull the realtek NIC and put it in a few other machines to test it but I don't wanna ruin a good thing!!! Is this really possible or is their some other explanation for this (driver-related, chipset-related, RAM-related, HD related???) My system rigs page has all the relavent info so y'all net techies can figure out where the speed increase is coming from. Just so you know, the P3 500 machine (which I had in college) was easily averaging 400-500k Internet, 800k-1.4mbps LAN when hooked up to the dorm's T1. So far I've concluded that 3Com NICs are just not suited for cable modem connections and that these $5 Realtek cards are the shiznit!
I manually switch my bedroom connection between 3 computers; an Alpha machine I use as an NT4/Linux server (3Com 10/100), a P3 500 machine (Win2k, 3Com 10/100) and an Athlon machine (WinME, dead 3Com 10/100.) In my room, the connection would always vary widely between 60k-250k, but averaging just a bit slower than ISDN speeds. I figured this was maybe due to some interference or faulty ethernet wiring in my bedroom wall (I have tried switching ports in the router to no avail.) Now the Athlon's NIC card was recently toasted somehow so I pulled out a spare Realtek 8139 to replace it. As soon as the drivers were installed I tested the net, and boy was I surprised!!!
WITHOUT any download accelerators, the new card was averaging between 250k-500k sustained (RoadRunner is only supposed to be a 300k connection!) With DAP4 running, I pulled the Quake3 Team Arena demo from happy puppy in about 9 minutes (120MB!!!!!) I was tempted to pull the realtek NIC and put it in a few other machines to test it but I don't wanna ruin a good thing!!! Is this really possible or is their some other explanation for this (driver-related, chipset-related, RAM-related, HD related???) My system rigs page has all the relavent info so y'all net techies can figure out where the speed increase is coming from. Just so you know, the P3 500 machine (which I had in college) was easily averaging 400-500k Internet, 800k-1.4mbps LAN when hooked up to the dorm's T1. So far I've concluded that 3Com NICs are just not suited for cable modem connections and that these $5 Realtek cards are the shiznit!
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