Re: [Nolug] LAN speed confusion

From: Petri Laihonen <pietu_at_weblizards.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:06:45 -0500
Message-ID: <CABa+GmiDGVZ_MJaXbp8nDve=pmg2psn0_tf6oCrQ0n3JkXSO+w@mail.gmail.com>

My theory is wasteful protocols. (If such terminology even exists)

I have similar observation. Mine maxed out at 12MB as well, though the
speed dropped to 7MB after I converted from single drive on the media
server to Raid6. (Local read/write speeds are now higher, yet transfers
over the network are slower)

I don't trust interwebs speed tests.

P

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

> I've got a bunch of devices at home connected to a Fast Ethernet switch.
> Among them are a Netgear switch (aku), my Linux desktop (haggis) and my
> wife's Linux desktop (peanutbutter). So, I should get a theoretical max of
> 12MBps in half-duplex mode and 25MBps in full-duplex mode.
>
> That's presumably why internet speed tests on both haggis and peanutbutter
> show peaks up to 24MBps (close enough to my paid-for max of 25MBps).
>
> Why, then, do xfers (NFS, scp & plain old ftp) between haggis and
> peanutbutter max out just under 12MBps?
>
> Ron
>
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