ethernet speed
ethernet speed
(OP)
What influences the speed of ethernet? I hooked up two computers for file transfer using a simple peer to peer connection with 2 10Mb/s ethernet cards. The file transfer was no faster than using a serial cable and communicating at 115200bps. Is ethernet communicating slower without a hub or what other possible reasons are there for not getting anywhere close to the expected 10Mb/s?





RE: ethernet speed
RE: ethernet speed
The analogy is BIG pipe can't be chocked with narrow stream of water, you have to have BIGGER pipe to chocke that, right.If want to test this do same file transfer using older pc(say 486).
If you are using TCP/IP protocol, the TCP calculates tasfer speed by seeing RTT (Round Trip Time), acknowledgement, window size. If you are using windows OS, than one entry need to be done in the registry to set this window size. I forgot the exact setting, I guess it is written in my diary ?.
NOTE :- When you are doing file transfer do with big file (size in MBs).