[NTLUG:Discuss] slow network speeds

[Doug Shaw]

At 03:09 PM 09.13.1999 -0500, you wrote:

>When I ftp from Win98 to Linux, I get over 950 Kbytes / sec.
>But when I ftp the other way, Linux to Win98, the transfer rate drops
below 100 Kbytes / sec.
>The same ratios exist when using samba instead of ftp to transfer files.
>The hub collision light is not lighting up during the slow transfer.

What kind of NICs are you using?  Some NICs send data out on the wire
before fully forming the packet, a technique which can boost performance in
some situations and hurt it in others, but is not a really wise
technological idea in either case.  If your card does this (3Com's
"parallel tasking" cards come to mind), you may want to look to the
efficiency of the respective OS's drivers as the problem.

Doug