[ Quoting Neil Croft to Scott Little ] 
 SL> My network cards (ISA 3COM Etherlink III) are rated at 10Mbps.
 SL> However, I can only manage to get transfers of around 2.4 Mbps. Is
 NC> This would depend on a number of things like number of stations,
 NC> network topology, application used, etc. 10meg is the line speed but
Peer to Peer, hubless, UTP.
 NC> there's an overhead of handshaking, error correcting, address
I have TCP/IP (NetBIOS), NetBEUI and IPX/SPX installed under Windows, IBM
Peer (TCPIP) under OS2, and IPX under DOS. All roughly the same no matter
what combo on the two PCs I use.
 NC> If you ever get the opportunity to actually look at the data on a busy
 NC> ethernet with something like a Network General Sniffer, you'll be
 NC> amazed at the amount of "non-productivity" traffic in use, especially
 NC> if you use bridges or suchlike.
I used EtherBoy, and there was little traffic, certainly nothing that would
cause 24% throughput.
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