[mythtvnz] Realtek NICs

[criggie at criggie.dyndns.org]

On 13/05/10 18:05, Steve Hodge wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:07 PM, <criggie at criggie.dyndns.org
> <mailto:criggie at criggie.dyndns.org>> wrote:
>
>     Steve Hodge wrote, On 05/13/2010 04:28 PM:
>      > Benchmarking with netio I can get about 58MB/s (TCP), still
>      > limited by the CPU in the fileserver. Between my desktop and laptop I
>      > can get up to about 75MB/s and it doesn't seem to be pegging the CPUs
>      > (I guess it might be pegging one of the cores in the laptop). It seem
>      > likely that the cheap switches I'm using are a bottleneck.
>
>     That's dreadful.... that's not even "okay" for 100 Mbit, let alone gig.
>
> Those numbers are bytes, not bits. And I think payload numbers rather
> than raw bandwidth.

Doh sorry.  I'm used to using megabits for link bandwidths.  Noone 
measures links in megabytes/second... not sure why.


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