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| From: | Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit? | ||
| Date: | Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:02:09 | ||
| Message-Id: | 201001181359.56230.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit? by Stroller |
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| 1 | On Monday 18 January 2010 13:50:55 Stroller wrote: |
| 2 | > Any estimates over what kind of speed I should be seeing for large |
| 3 | > file-transfers over Samba? Wildly ball-park is fine - I wouldn't |
| 4 | > expect a 10x speed increase, but maybe 2x or 3x - 4x would be great! |
| 5 | > |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Somewhere on the order of 400-600 Mb/s is usual. The NIC and it's firmware can |
| 8 | cope with 1G, but cabling usually cannot |
| 9 | |
| 10 | |
| 11 | -- |
| 12 | alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |