Transfer Speeds PCMCIA CF vs Network.

[nicholas]

I get little less than 400kb/s when I'm transferrin files from my OS4 machine to my classiscs 040/060, using pcmicia wifi and netfs. I can even run whdload games over the network with my OS4 machine.

Transferring files between classicks is not so fast 20-40kb/s

netfs is NFS for OS4?

[utri007]

No, it is this http://aminet.net/search?query=netfs and it is build in on Genesis OS3.9

It was little tricky to get it work with OS4 because it requires some folders, NOT a programs from AmiTCP

[nicholas]

No, it is this http://aminet.net/search?query=netfs and it is build in on Genesis OS3.9

It was little tricky to get it work with OS4 because it requires some folders, NOT a programs from AmiTCP

Oh ok. I get similar speeds between my 060/Roadshow/Deneb/USB Ethernet and my Linux machines with smbfs, same with MorphOS to Linux too.

[bbond007]

Just tried it and FTPMount could not be simpler to setup. Make sure you allow FTP in windows firewall which was where I was going wrong

you just go into the hosts directory of wherever you installed it and add a DIR for the server in there.

in my case ftpuser@192.168.1.114 and ftpuser@x51 both worked.

ftpuser is the user on windows8 I setup with ftp permission. x51 is the name of my computer.

just FYI, It works but seems to have long periods of unresponsiveness worse than anything I'd typically experience with samba.

[orange]

there's a nice, free, simple ftp server for windows: http://www.freesshd.com/
but I don't know how secure it is, so use firewall and don't keep it always running.

[nicholas]

Just tried it and FTPMount could not be simpler to setup. Make sure you allow FTP in windows firewall which was where I was going wrong

you just go into the hosts directory of wherever you installed it and add a DIR for the server in there.

in my case ftpuser@192.168.1.114 and ftpuser@x51 both worked.

ftpuser is the user on windows8 I setup with ftp permission. x51 is the name of my computer.

just FYI, It works but seems to have long periods of unresponsiveness worse than anything I'd typically experience with samba.

I've found that happens a lot with remote ftp sites more than local ones. Maybe it doesn't like some ftp server programs as much as others?

I run proftpd on my Linux machines and it works ok. I think you can use it on Windows via Cygwin.

[bbond007]

I've found that happens a lot with remote ftp sites more than local ones. Maybe it doesn't like some ftp server programs as much as others?

I run proftpd on my Linux machines and it works ok. I think you can use it on Windows via Cygwin.

It seems like after it stalls for a while leaving all of workbench unresponsive then finally comes back and asks for login/password again and works again for a while. Seems like its disconnecting or timing out for whatever reason. There might be some settings I can tweak on either end. I can also try and enable FTP on my mac and see if it works better with that.

[nicholas]

It seems like after it stalls for a while leaving all of workbench unresponsive then finally comes back and asks for login/password again and works again for a while. Seems like its disconnecting or timing out for whatever reason. There might be some settings I can tweak on either end. I can also try and enable FTP on my mac and see if it works better with that.

I had no trouble connecting to my MBP running 10.8.3 (Haven't been able to try since i upgraded to 10.8.4 as it borked my 3rd party wifi driver and I haven't been bothered to try and fix it yet).

[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.

[nicholas]

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.

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.

[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.

[nicholas]

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.

It could be a compatibility problem between the 68k smbfs and MorphOS IP stack, not sure, but it's a well known problem on MOS.

One day I might get around to getting smbfs 1.74 to compile for MorphOS to see if it makes any difference.