Gigabit

This is what I did at work today:


file transfer from machine A to machine B, going through a 100meg hub, through a 100 meg fiber link

ftp: 21290704 bytes received in 66.25Seconds 321.37Kbytes/sec.
ftp: 21290704 bytes received in 118.41Seconds 179.81Kbytes/sec.
ftp: 21290704 bytes received in 86.23Seconds 246.89Kbytes/sec.
ftp: 21290704 bytes received in 78.59Seconds 270.89Kbytes/sec.
ftp: 21290704 bytes received in 76.84Seconds 277.06Kbytes/sec.
ftp: 21290704 bytes received in 84.11Seconds 253.13Kbytes/sec.
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file transfer from machine A to machine B, both machines with Gigabit NICs, going through gigabit switches on both ends, with the fiber link upgraded to gigabit.

ftp: 21290704 bytes received in 0.91Seconds 23499.67Kbytes/sec.
ftp: 21290704 bytes received in 0.94Seconds 22697.98Kbytes/sec.
ftp: 21290704 bytes received in 0.89Seconds 23895.29Kbytes/sec.
ftp: 21290704 bytes received in 0.89Seconds 23922.14Kbytes/sec.
ftp: 21290704 bytes received in 1.13Seconds 18925.07Kbytes/sec.