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!