e343ca@tamuts.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) (12/05/90)
I am posting this for a friend. Please email responses to him not me!
His address is chris@rigel.tamu.edu. He writes:
I am currently hooked up to the net via a Western Digital Ethercard
Plus 16. I'm running NCSA Telnet and using the packet driver written
at Clarkson University, which I now see was written originally for the
8 bit card. So apparently my card is running in 8 bit mode.
Questions: 1) Is the fact that I'm running in 8 bit mode compromising
system performance, e.g., slowing down ftp transfers? 2) I'm also
running under Windows; I notice that there is a rather dramatic drop
in Windows' performance when I'm running Telnet or FTP, especially
when run in a window; also file transfers seem to go more slowly.
Might the 16 bit card be the culprit here also?
Undoubtedly this has already been discussed here, but since my primary
mainframe is a Vax running VMS (blush) I don't have the benefit of
being able to look through past discussions. Any help much appreciated.
Chris Menzel (chris@rigel.tamu.edu)
Colin Allen e343ca@tamuts.tamu.edu
Department of Philosophy
Texas A&M University (409) 845-3606
College Station, TX 77843-4237nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (12/05/90)
In article <10671@helios.TAMU.EDU> e343ca@tamuts.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) writes:
I am currently hooked up to the net via a Western Digital Ethercard
Plus 16. I'm running NCSA Telnet and using the packet driver written
at Clarkson University, which I now see was written originally for the
8 bit card. So apparently my card is running in 8 bit mode.
The 7.x wd8003e packet driver also supports the wd8013EBT, running in
16-bit mode. I can't tell from your message what version you're using
(for the subtlety-impaired: ALWAYS SAY WHAT VERSION PACKET DRIVER
YOU'RE USING).
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