[rescue] FDDI go fast!

[dave at cca.org]

lists at pellucidar.net writes:

>On 2 Sep 2002 00:37:30 -0000
>jwbirdsa at picarefy.com wrote:

>>    The verdict: if all you have is 3Com cards, don't bother unless
>>    you're
>> desperate.
>> 
>>    Typical transfer rate between 3C805 cards: 120Kbytes per second.

>There has to be a firmware or driver issue somewhere, I can go faster
>than that with a 10Mbit ethernet card on a quiet network.  I haven't
>done anything with FDDI, but it has to be better than that, or somebody
>would have a class action suit going against 3Com.  I know guys that get
>almost that out of their cable modems.  I don't know much about FDDI,

I get twice that out of my cable modem.

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