Subject: Re: resend: Upgrading processor / DECREASED network performance
To: Rick Byers <rickb@iaw.on.ca>
From: David Brownlee <abs@mono.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/25/1999 14:47:36
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Rick Byers wrote:
> Well, the "other side" is connected directly to a cable modem, and the
> Rogers@Home network isn't exactly congestion-free, so I couldn't be sure if
> my machine was the problem, or if it was the cable network. However, when
> I can take the network down for a few hours, I'm planning on hooking it up
> to a couple of NetBSD boxes and then test the throughput under different
> conditions. One problem though is that I'd have to be able to rule out the
> network performance of the clients. Since this is just my home network
> (shared with 8 of my friends), I don't have many high quality ethernet
> cards that I can be sure aren't causing a problem.
>
If your friends use, uh, less favoured operating systems then you
could try running ftp on each of them and getting '/netbsd'
from your machine in each case - that may show up some
bottlenecks.
> Thanks for the suggestion about ttcp though, I'll give it a try anyway -
> see what kind of bandwidth it says I have and compare that to a friend
> who's also on the @Home network.
Hope it helps!