Subj : 10 / 100
To   : Gordon Lewicky
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Thu Sep 26 2002 05:06 am

Gordon Lewicky wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 GL>  Quoting Roy J. Tellason to all 
 GL>  Subj. 10 / 100, dated 24-Sep-2002 20:06 

 RJT> At what point do you *need* a 100MHz lan?  Or better,  what can't you
 RJT> do on a 10?  I'm thinking about streaming audio,  ferinstance.  I'd
 RJT> guess that streaming video would definitely need the higher speed. 

 GL> Not too sure what you shouldn't attempt on a 10, but I did find out
 GL> that a pentium pushing files to a 486 generally gave network
 GL> transmission errors, whereas I could pull files from the pent from
 GL> the 486 most of the time using 100's, in netbeui.

 GL> I got around that by always ftp'ing to and from the 486 via my
 GL> local tcp/ip network.

I get pretty good transfer rates here with ftp going between a 5x86/133 running 
dos to a K6-200 running linux,  likewise doing http though most of the pages I 
hit are small enough that I can't really get a handle on it.  OTOH the w98 box 
(formerly a w95 box) used to make the collision light on the hub flicker pretty 
regularly.

What I was interested in was moving streams of data,  though,  and I still 
don't have a handle on what might be possible before I upgrade the LAN 
somewhere along the way... 

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