Transfer Speeds PCMCIA CF vs Network.

[Karlos]

In my experience, smbfs is only truly awful when connecting to Windows. I have a couple of samba shares on my linux box and my Amiga machines all access them via smbfs. I haven't observed any particularly poor performance (compared to other protocols) over a PCMCIA network interface in either 3.9 or OS4.

[Karlos]

I never get more than 350-450 KB/s between MorphOS and Linux with the 68k smbfs over my 54MB/s WLAN.

With FTP I get 2MB/s across the same network to the same machine.

Well, I'll have to benchmark it properly. Certainly while the A1 still worked, smbfs between that machine and the linux box was close to saturation point on a 100Mb connection. For example, I used to run the SDK on the A1 and compile sources that were actually over the network on the linux machine. Transferring large files would hit 7-8MiB/s no problem.

With PCMCIA on my A1200, the speed is much lower and I don't think I get much more than ~500KiB/s for anything.