Chris wrote:
> 
> on 8/14/00 10:09 PM, Paul Apprich at psapprich@mindspring.com wrote
> something like:
> 
> > Fellow VAXophilen,
> >
> > It is normal for a VS3100 M76 to FTP data about 80KBytes/sec?
> >
> > Paul
> 
>     No it shouldn't be. What version are you running (uname -a), what type
> of network connection (physical layer) are you connected to, and what is the
> output of ifconfig -a. If you're running something Pre SCSI-DMA, it could be
> slow HD access. If you're running Current, I remember seeing a post on
> current-users about i386 FTP performance going down the tubes. It could also
> just be a bad cable, among other things. I've pushed 300-500 k/sec out of my
> VS3100 m30 on 1.4P (on Thick Ethernet), while that isn't great considering
> what Ultrix can probably do, but it's certainly beats 80 k/sec. I assume you
> are downloading from another machine directly connected or on the same
> subnet?
> 
>     Chris

	This is the 1.4.2 installer floppy kernel. The VS3100 is FTPing from a
Pentium 120 w/ WinBond 940 PCI ethernet using thin coax. From a 486
DX4-133 to the same Pentium box I get a rate of 1.05 MBytes/sec.

Paul