Originally posted by Mines Mystique:
Originally posted by sigma:
What's the speed of the 2 computers? And the speed of the 2 Hard Drives? How much stuff is running on each?

It's nice that they sell cards that can transfer 100MB/s, but you really can't get too much faster than 1.5-2Mb/s no matter what you do, as your computer can only DL, translate, and write the stuff to the hard drive so fast through the relatively small bandwith within the motherboard and slow speed of IDE hard drives (which I'm going to presume that you have)




Make sure you differentiate between megabit per second(Mb/s) and megabyte per second(MB/s). The 100 mb/s card is entirely possible. I have one in my computer. Now 100 MB/s is a ways off in the future. And I can get upwards of 4 or 5 MB/s on the network at school going from my computer to my roommate's computer through the network. As to the question, I have no idea why that is happening. Are you using cat 5 cable?



Nope 100MB/sec is here today. There is gigabit ethernet, even in copper form. I've seen Linksys consumer switches with a single gigabit port. I'm sure consumer switches with more ports will be here soon.

Of course can the PC architecture keep up with that?

I know Sun's do, and we have both copper and fibre PCI gigabit ethernet cards for our SPARC based servers.

BTW, I know my laptop is really slow. So I really don't know how fast PCMCIA hardware will transfer data. Wasn't one of the machines in the problem a laptop? Is the NIC a PCMCIA NIC or built in?

Do the drivers for your NICs allow you to setup the ports. Perhaps autonegotiation isn't working quite right and you are not getting 100Mb/Full Duplex.

TB

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