set up home 10baset network, is 900k/s good?

[bdog]

I just set up my home network with 10baset. I set up a http server on one computer and downloaded a 600mb file to the other. I started at around 200k and got up to 900 k per second. I am not familiar with network speeds. Is this a good speed, or should I expect more?

[JW310]

It would be easier to tell the answer to that if we knew the specs of the network... like what protocol you are using, etc.... since you mentioned running an http server, I'm assuming it would be TCP/IP. Download a program called DU Meter from here (http://www.sysopt.com/software.html), and run it while you're transferring a file. Set it to show the speed in bits per second (bps) not Bytes per second. Anything in the 2-3+ Mbps (mega bits/second) is good... I think my 10bT network tops about at about 4.5Mbps when doing file transfers... not sure how that tranfers to KBytes/sec.

JW

[bdog]

Thanks for the reply. I am running my network with two win 98se machines using only tcp/ip protocol. They are sharing internet connection using vsocks. I downloaded du meter and downloaded the same 600 meg file. The average speed was 6700 kilobits per second. I guess it is working good.

[JW310]

Yep, looks like it's working fine! Although 10bT is technically 10Mbps, you probably won't get much faster than the 6.8Mbps you obtained with the 600mb file!

[Pat Kennedy]

On 10T networks you can expect a maximum of 8mbps which translates nicely into 1MBps. 900KBps is not too far off that. Even 670KBps is not bad.

Pat