Re: [Sheflug] Network hardware

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk>]

Yes, I have seen this.

If only 2 machines are on a peer-peer network, it shouldn't be that bad,
should it?

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.free-online.co.uk

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Life would be so much easier if we 
could just look at the source code.
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On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> >>>>> "Craig" == Craig Andrews <craig [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk> writes:
> 
>     Craig> Maplins in hillsborough are doing some PCI NE2000 cards for
>     Craig> a tenner. They work fine.
> 
> Mostly.
> 
> I've seen reports where cheap PCI NE2000 clones can have throughput as
> bad as 30-40% of nominal (where the rest of the system can definitely
> handle it).  But if you're not streaming video or the like it
> shouldn't be a problem.  It also depends on the rest of the system,
> other people say that they get the full 10 or 100 megabits in their
> situation.
> 
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