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- From: uclywss@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Warwick Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Transfer Speeds from PC to SPARC 10
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.154521.12820@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 15:45:21 GMT
- Sender: news@ucl.ac.uk (Usenet News System)
- Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium
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- We need to periodically copy 1 gigabyte files from a PC to Sun SPARC 10's.
- NFS, FTP and RCP give painfully slow transfer rates for this size of file,
- typically 85 - 160 kbytes/sec.
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- The Sun SPARC 10's are model 30 workstations giving file transfer speeds
- on local disk of 670 Kbytes/sec, and 1.2 Mbytes/sec between them over
- the Ethernet using FTP.
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- The PC is a 486 33Mhz using a BICC 16 bit Ethernet card with MPS 4.2
- and PCNFS 4.0. File transfer speed on its local disk is 250 Kbytes/sec
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- Can anyone tell me:-
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- If it is possible to make such a PC transfer binary files faster to a SPARC 10
- using Ethernet, and if so, how, and what is the maximum transfer rate
- possible. 500 Kbytes/sec would be the minimum acceptable.
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- Are there any products available for sending data from a PC to a SPARC 10
- faster than is possible over Ethernet, and if so what file transfer rate
- could be achieved.
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- Thanks
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- Warwick Smith
- Dept of Phonetics
- University College
- London
- E-mail: warwick@phonetics.ucl.ac.uk
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