Re: Ultra 1 as home router
"Tom 'spot' Callaway" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.aurora.user |
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| Organization | Red Hat |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 18:10 -0600, John Zbesko wrote: > So I measured my Comcast cable broadband speed both directly to an AMD64 > FX PC and then through my Ultra 1 with 10Mbit onboard ethernet connected > to the cable modem and a 100Mbit card facing the AMD64 (through a > gigabit switch.) > > The download speed through the Ultra is 80% of the direct connection and > the upload speed is less than half, 47%! (4103kbps vs. 5044kbps and 168 > vs. 358) > > The Ultra is running 2.4.27-3-sparc64. Firestarter is my choice for > configuring a firewall. The Ultra is also running Apache2, X, dhcp and > samba servers, sshd and has 384 MB RAM. > > Is this expected?! Should I just give up on this obsolete hardware? SBUS 10Mbit is going to be slower than PCI 100MBit. 2.6 might give it a boost. ~spot _______________________________________________ Aurora-sparc-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.auroralinux.org/mailman/listinfo/aurora-sparc-user Aurora FAQ: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~mas01r/aurorafaq.html