Expected network throughput on Mediator?

[kolla]

Always thought it was funny how I got better networking and filesystem performance with Linux than with AmigaOS on same hardware, and on Linux I got a much more modern and feature rich IP stack too.

[kolla]

Nothing bogus about duga's claim, not sure what you aim at Mike.

[kolla]

Well, at least the 94 Mbs is reachable in a closed laboratory setting between two PC's with no hubs and using ttcp (Test TCP) provided the "sender" only sends and the "receiver" only receives.

Not at all, you can reach those levels also with NFS across LANs, most equipment today is gigabit anyways. And full duplex means that you can both send and receive without one affecting the other.

But, to the best of my knowledge we were talking about Amiga and their Ethernet cards and throughput over the Zorro 2/3 bus, multitasking, error checking and the like.

Your knowledge is failing then, what he wrote was:

"You can reach 94-97 Mbps on a FastEthernet interface. But you won't reach that on your 'Classic' Amiga of course."

[kolla]

Sheesh, FFS!!

He said FastEthernet *interfaces*, not network, stop twisting this around! Today equipment is typically geared toward Gbit speeds, and yeah, 97% efficiency on 100Mbit interfaces is quite doable - nowhere did he mention protocol overhead, because that is irrelevant when it comes to measing efficiency of *hardware*. You chose to use a slow protocol with lots of overhead, that your effin problem!

[kolla]

Well, I'm sorry to see you strugling with your network, as well as your grammar.

[kolla]

Oh, facts. Too bad I'm far away from any hardware to do performance tests myself for you, but here is a paper on throughputs with various Windows releases, notice how most numbers are well above 94% efficiency.

http://www.zti-telecom.com/BrochuresN/LanTraffic%20V2%20%28V2.6%29%20Performances%20Measurements.pdf

As for "personal" attack, consider it a tongue in cheek attack on all your countrymen, who seem to strugle so hard with what you consider your own language (which btw, it is not)

[kolla]

What this started with was Oldsmobile claiming that 94-97Mbit on a fastether interface is BS. It is not, and you don't need a "lab setup" to prove that, just hook a fairly modern machine with a fastether NIC to a modern switch and do your measuring. There is no difference in a "lab" and real world here, the equipment is the same.