Ethernet math (Was Re: MWC's Coherent - A Lemon...)

[John C. Archambeau]

davin at me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap) writes:
>It isn't ethernet overhead that's bogging you down, depending on you
>packet size there's precious little of that.  Your problem is that your
>ethernet interfaces suck, the combination of computer, ethernet
>controller and driver.  Unfortunately, you're in the same boat as most
>people out there, and for you 3-4 Mbit/s is what you're gonna see.

That's the problem, I can not see a consistant throughput of more than maybe 4
4 Mbits per second at best on the entire network.  The lack of consistancy in
throughput.
 
     // JCA

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