Hi doug,

I guess, you did not read the message carefully. I'm perfectly aware that we're talking about Megabits per seconds (Mbps) and not about megabytes per second (MBps, note the capital B). Theoreticly the troughput on this network is 10/8bits = 1.25 MBps. I know that TCP/IP has some overhead so I would expect a troughput arround 1 MBps. However, in my case I did experience a throughput of arround 500 KBps (KiloBYTE per second), which is only half from what I expected). After I disabled the NETBEUI protocol on several machines the throughtput went up to arround 950 KBps which I expect to be normal.

Walter,

>Walter,
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>Rolf is right!
>10Mb (Mega Bits) NOT 10MB (Mega Bytes). There are 8 bits in 1 byte, so your figures would seem about right for the 50MB (Mega Byte) file.
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>Regards
>Doug Johnston
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>>Hi rolf,
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>>>10 Mbit/s = 1.25 MB/s
>>>Copying a 50 MB file will need 62.5 seconds.
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>>Don't you mean 50 MB / 1.25 MBps = 40 seconds ?
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>>>No network card can do 10 Mbit/s.
>>>With the overhead from TCP/IP, 100 seconds is just fine for your network.
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>>I know TCP/IP has some overhead and that 10 Mbps is seldom effectively reached, but IMO there is big difference in 40 or 100 seconds.
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>>Am I missing something ?
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>>Can anyone else test their 10BASE2 network speed performance ?
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>>Walter,