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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sat, 8 May 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > How fast is 10Mb ethernet relative to plip?  
> 
> Here are the results of a test I ran using two
> of my computers (FTP server on Pentium, client
> on 486).
> 
> Time to transfer 2.5mb file  
> -------------------------------
> 10Mb ethernet         4 seconds
> PLIP                 64 seconds
> SLIP (115200)       271 seconds
> -------------------------------
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven

I just transferred 147MB (compressed/archived) via plip in about 60 
minutes, which also comes to 2.5M per minute like you got.
It would have been 4 minutes via ethernet.  

Maybe I should have learned to use ethernet before setting up six machines 
this way, but we can eat lunch while waiting.

I am more concerned about plip and llpro messing up the transfer of image 
files.  Have you tried using plip to transfer fs.img, Steven?  

I won't try SLIP at 1/4 the speed of PLIP.  Or Kermit over serial 
nullmodem cable and probably the same speed.

I have one PCI ethernet card with both round and phone-type connectors.  
Is one better to use than the other, assuming I can get a free connector 
and matching card?  Do you do something different with the software for 
each connector?