On Sat, 28 Jan 1995, George Michaelson wrote:

> 
>   My data point: WD8013 on a 386/25 -> SGI over local quiet ether
>   2486813 bytes sent in 7.98 seconds (311448 bytes/s)
> 
> NE2100 clone on VLB using le0, 486/100 -> DEC 5000/240 Ultrix
> over busy mildly ethernet (10-15% base load) 400kbytes/s
> 
> I think a 32-bit datapath helps, as does base clockspeed but i think
> this one should have done better. Any ideas?
> 
> -George

Just for the Heck of it:
NE2000 16-bit ISA GVC clone (ed0) 386 DX-40  on non-busy WAN (Christmas 
Holiday)

 (reedb.rhn.orst.edu (386) <-> marvin.che.orst.edu (Sparc-10) )

 600k/sec (both ways) (sustained)

normal rate (busy)
~300k/sec (sustained)

Both machines had basically no load at the time.



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