what's the fastest your lan can transfer at?

[hahher]

wondering what other people get.

i transfer at around 5-6mbyte/s. which is half of theoretical. wondering if this is close to fastest or something limiting in my lan

 

[Fiveohhh]

10ish

 

[eelw]

8-9MBps through a SMC router.

 

[Nothinman]

Depends on the machine, some are limited by their disks but the rest generally get 8-9MB/s.

 

[n0cmonkey]

I think I currently have most of my machines set at 10mbit because of hardware issues (not enough PCI slots ). My sparcstation 10 doesn't work on my netgear 10/100 switch, so that and a second nic in my main machine are at 10mbit. Some of the machines are limited by disk speed, others with underperforming drivers (might be the NIC, I don't care). Also, I had to set my wireless network to 1mbit because (I think, this is a hypothesis because I can't test it yet) the PCI bus on my p133 doesn't work well enough to support 11mbit. Everything is slow, but more than enough for what I generally do.

 

[Garion]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I think I currently have most of my machines set at 10mbit because of hardware issues (not enough PCI slots ). My sparcstation 10 doesn't work on my netgear 10/100 switch, so that and a second nic in my main machine are at 10mbit. Some of the machines are limited by disk speed, others with underperforming drivers (might be the NIC, I don't care). Also, I had to set my wireless network to 1mbit because (I think, this is a hypothesis because I can't test it yet) the PCI bus on my p133 doesn't work well enough to support 11mbit. Everything is slow, but more than enough for what I generally do.

Man, that's too complicated. Go out and buy a cheap hub, go from SPARC -> hub -> switch.

As for me, I get about 60Mb/s when transferring between two fast PC's with a generic and an onboard NIC.

- G

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Garion

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I think I currently have most of my machines set at 10mbit because of hardware issues (not enough PCI slots ). My sparcstation 10 doesn't work on my netgear 10/100 switch, so that and a second nic in my main machine are at 10mbit. Some of the machines are limited by disk speed, others with underperforming drivers (might be the NIC, I don't care). Also, I had to set my wireless network to 1mbit because (I think, this is a hypothesis because I can't test it yet) the PCI bus on my p133 doesn't work well enough to support 11mbit. Everything is slow, but more than enough for what I generally do.

Man, that's too complicated. Go out and buy a cheap hub, go from SPARC -> hub -> switch.

As for me, I get about 60Mb/s when transferring between two fast PC's with a generic and an onboard NIC.

- G

It will be simplified when I have money. Money happens to be the only thing holding me back at the moment

The plan is to get a new firewall machine with 1 NIC to the outside, 1 100mbit NIC to the inside for most of the machines, 1 NIC for the "lab" (netbooting machines that require 10mbit), and a wireless NIC for the wireless network. Simplifies everything and keeps it spread out away from each other.

The problem with SPARC-> hub-> switch is that my switch it more than maxed out right now (have to switch cables on occassion). But that will be solved when I get money (soon now, real soon) too. and maybe I'll go with this solution instead of the multiple NIC idea, haven't decided just yet. I like the idea of putting my NFS shares behind a different part of the firewall and away from most of my other machines.