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From: e343ca@tamuts.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Using a 16 bit ethernet card.
Keywords: ethernet , western digital
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Date: 4 Dec 90 23:24:09 GMT
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I am posting this for a friend.  Please email responses to him not me!
His address is chris@rigel.tamu.edu.  He writes:

I am currently hooked up to the net via a Western Digital Ethercard
Plus 16.  I'm running NCSA Telnet and using the packet driver written
at Clarkson University, which I now see was written originally for the
8 bit card.  So apparently my card is running in 8 bit mode.
Questions: 1) Is the fact that I'm running in 8 bit mode compromising
system performance, e.g., slowing down ftp transfers?  2) I'm also
running under Windows; I notice that there is a rather dramatic drop
in Windows' performance when I'm running Telnet or FTP, especially
when run in a window; also file transfers seem to go more slowly.
Might the 16 bit card be the culprit here also?

Undoubtedly this has already been discussed here, but since my primary
mainframe is a Vax running VMS (blush) I don't have the benefit of
being able to look through past discussions.  Any help much appreciated.

Chris Menzel  (chris@rigel.tamu.edu)


Colin Allen				e343ca@tamuts.tamu.edu
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