Re: Network throughput too low?

2001-07-12 Thread Alan Shutko
Mart van de Wege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So does anyone know of a nice CardBus NIC that plays well with Debian? I > did get a 3Com 575 with this machine as well, but couldn't get it to work > on the first go My 3c575 (specifically, 3CCFE575BT) works perfectly. ISTR some problems with it an

Re: Network throughput too low?

2001-07-12 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:08:35 -0400 Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mart van de Wege wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > A minor question, possibly OT: for some reason I'm getting a very low > > network throughput between my laptop and my desktop machine. I just > ran a > > test with netpipe-tcp

Re: Network throughput too low?

2001-07-12 Thread Mike Dresser
Mart van de Wege wrote: > Folks, > > A minor question, possibly OT: for some reason I'm getting a very low > network throughput between my laptop and my desktop machine. I just ran a > test with netpipe-tcp, and the maximum speed is some 15Mbps. As I have a > 3Com 905C in the desktop box and a 3Co

Re: Network throughput too low?

2001-07-12 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:21:27 -0400 "Michael B. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:04:16PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > > Folks, > > > > A minor question, possibly OT: for some reason I'm getting a very low > > network throughput between my laptop and my desktop ma

Re: Network throughput too low?

2001-07-11 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:04:16PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Folks, > > A minor question, possibly OT: for some reason I'm getting a very low > network throughput between my laptop and my desktop machine. I just ran a > test with netpipe-tcp, and the maximum speed is some 15Mbps. As I have

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread David Benfell
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:35:59PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:24:49PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > Just curious: when you write an article in which you use MegaBytes and > > MegaBits a lot, how do you distinguish between them? > > Somewhere I have read that i

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Sebastiaan
Perhaps we should close this discussion. I found a page about SI prescriptions at: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html but I have never read any document using that convention. It says: 1 mebibyte = 1 MiB = 2^20 B (=byte) Bit is always written out. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Fri, 5 Jan 20

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread garyjones
At Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:24:49 +0100 (MET) , Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:44:34AM +0100, Michal F. Hanula wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: >> > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Phili

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:24:49PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Just curious: when you write an article in which you use MegaBytes and > MegaBits a lot, how do you distinguish between them? Somewhere I have read that it is common to use Bits when talking about data that has to be transmitted and B

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Robert Waldner
>> IIRC `K' as in KB means 1024 (2^10), while `k' as in kB (or kg, or almost >> anything else) means 1000 (10^3). Still not confused? > >That's true and this is well defined in the SI. >But does that mean, we have to distinguish between mb, Mb, mB and MB? yes. cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Wal

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:44:34AM +0100, Michal F. Hanula wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > > > KB = Kelvin Byte > > > > > > IIRC `K' as in KB means 1024 (

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:44:34AM +0100, Michal F. Hanula wrote: > On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > > KB = Kelvin Byte > > > > IIRC `K' as in KB means 1024 (2^10), while `k' as in kB (or kg, or almost > anything el

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Sebastiaan
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > > KB = Kelvin Byte > > > > IIRC `K' as in KB means 1024 (2^10), while `k' as in kB (or kg, or almost > anything else) means 1000 (10^3). Still not confused? Ok, and what about Mega

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Michal F. Hanula
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:25:10AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > KB = Kelvin Byte > > IIRC `K' as in KB means 1024 (2^10), while `k' as in kB (or kg, or almost anything else) means 1000 (10^3). Still not confused? Miso&

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-05 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:02:49PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > > > I guess you are mixing up MBit and MByte. > > > Phil > > You too, it is Mb for megabit and MB for megabyte. > > Same for kB = kiloBy

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-04 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 01:36:15AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > Could you please give me an URL, where this is defined? > I searched the SI units but it does not mention any difference between > MB and Mb. > Phil > I don't know where this is defined, but this is a consistency I've noticed as w

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-04 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:02:49PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > I guess you are mixing up MBit and MByte. > > Phil > You too, it is Mb for megabit and MB for megabyte. > Same for kB = kiloByte. > > Please do not use silly shorts, like > mb = milibit

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-04 Thread Sebastiaan
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, running in full duplex. This > > machine is running as a ftp proxy. As part of the traffic going through the > > box, some streams have 1

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-04 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:07:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:04:13AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > > > I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, running in full duplex. This > > > machin

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-04 Thread tps
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:04:13AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, running in full duplex. This > > machine is running as a ftp proxy. As part of the traffic going through the > > box,

Re: Network Throughput

2001-01-03 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:37:56PM -0500, Tim Sailer wrote: > I have a Debian box with 2 NICs. Both 100Meg, running in full duplex. This > machine is running as a ftp proxy. As part of the traffic going through the > box, some streams have 1000k window size for a certain reason. How do > I tune t