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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: WD8013EPT performance and MFS
Message-ID: <3653@wzv.win.tue.nl>
Date: 22 Jul 92 18:47:40 GMT
References: <14iqvrINNmj6@rodan.UU.NET>
Sender: news@wzv.win.tue.nl
Organization: Guido's home 486 box
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In article <14iqvrINNmj6@rodan.UU.NET> lidl@uunet.uu.net (Kurt J. Lidl) writes:
>In light of the other performance problems that people have
>been noting, I will give this ray of sunshine.  On my
>386/33, with a WD8013EPT ethernet card, I get pretty good
>transfers:
>
>ftp> get xtank.sun4
>200 PORT command successful.
>150 Binary data connection for xtank.sun4 (192.111.45.22,1076) (2719744 bytes).
>226 Binary Transfer complete.
>2719744 bytes received in 13 seconds (2e+02 Kbytes/s)
>ftp> get xtank.sun4
>200 PORT command successful.
>150 Binary data connection for xtank.sun4 (192.111.45.22,1077) (2719744 bytes).
>226 Binary Transfer complete.
>2719744 bytes received in 13 seconds (2.1e+02 Kbytes/s)
Try to put some files and you'll notice a speed difference. 
Actually I'm not to impressed with these figures. I'm using a 486 33mHz
and I'm NOT using mfs (lack of ram still). I get around 300 kb/s with a
wd8003, so an 8 bit card.

-Guido

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Script started on Wed Jul 22 20:38:34 1992
guido@gvr[101] ftp wzv
Connected to wzv.win.tue.nl.
220 wzv FTP server (Version 4.203 Thu Dec 19 23:27:23 MET 1991) ready.
Name (wzv:guido): 
331 Password required for guido.
Password:
230 User guido logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd /
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> get vmunix.generic
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for vmunix.generic (1540165 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
1540165 bytes received in 4.7 seconds (3.2e+02 Kbytes/s)
ftp> cd /tmp
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> put vmunix.generic
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for vmunix.generic.
226 Transfer complete.
1540165 bytes sent in 9.9 seconds (1.5e+02 Kbytes/s)
ftp> del vmunix.generic
250 DELE command successful.
ftp> bye
221 Goodbye.
guido@gvr[104] ^D

Script done on Wed Jul 22 20:40:14 1992