[geeks] Well, THAT was a setback

[Phil Stracchino]

On 01/19/10 05:56, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> My experience has been you can get 2-3 megabytes per second on an empty
> network depending upon the processor speed, card type, operating system and
> driving protocol and operating systems (ftp is the fastest, AFP 
> from Linux is the slowest). YMMV.

Your experience differs from mine.  Testing via FTP between Solaris and
Linux hosts, I routinely see an honest 95-98 megabits across my network
on 100Mbit NICs and switches, as long as the source machine can sustain
that transfer rate.  I have to wonder what you're doing (or not doing)
to be getting such poor performance.  (Though "AFP" gives me a clue; my
experience is that Macs have *always* been sluggish relative to other
machines with comparable processor speed and memory.)


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