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From: minshall@kinetics.UUCP (Greg Minshall)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: tweaking NCSA Telnet's ftp performance?
Message-ID: <668@kinetics.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 88 21:30:33 GMT
References: <720@lts.UUCP>
Organization: Kinetics, Inc., Walnut Creek, CA
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From article <720@lts.UUCP>, by amanda@lts.UUCP (Amanda Walker):
> Something that may be a limiting factor about the EtherPort II is that
> it uses the Intel Ethernet chip, which does not handle collisions or
> back-to-back packets very well.

Actually, people have seen anywhere from 1 to 3 megabits/second (application
level data) using the EtherPort II card (and we get quite reasonable(*)
performance using our FTP client).

Greg Minshall					Kinetics
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(*) "quite reasonable"?  Well, say greater than 50Kbytes/second in binary
mode (depending, somewhat, on your local disk/configuration).  We've seen
over 90Kbytes/second at times.