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Xref: sserve comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:18404 comp.os.386bsd.questions:4746 Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Data transfer rates - strange differences! Message-ID: <hastyCCL7K1.628@netcom.com> Keywords: ftp, tcp, transfer rates Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <25na11$51s@olivaw.apanix.apana.org.au> <1993Aug30.174939.16586@adobe.com> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1993 19:31:13 GMT Lines: 31 In article <1993Aug30.174939.16586@adobe.com> jsundar@adobe.com (Jagane Sundar) writes: > > I have noticed similar differences in transfer rates. > In using the same PC with both 386bsd and DOS/Windows, I > found that I could get from 400K to 600 K using 386bsd(600K > with the new ed drivers). However the same machine gives as little > as 100K with the "best" commercial windows TCP package. Its because > of Windows build in stupidity. > Add me to your list of ed driver's fans, I got around 70kb/s with a commercial tcp/ip package under Windows when I know that I can get 400kb/s + with Dave's ethernet driver. (measure with an ftp transfer) o XS3 for S3 928 cards now supports 1280x1024 o gcc is known to compile upto 5 times faster than lets say Borland's c compiler. Yes sir, must say we are looking real good :-) Amancio Hasty -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming