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Connecting Peer-to-Peer in Win98
Gharlane says that a crossover cable will only achieve about 9600 k/sec. Why is this? I've experienced this myself recently and was curious why I wasn't anywhere close to the 10Mb/sec transfer rate. Is it different with a hub and a straight through cable? -
ethernet speed
1) The one PC in question is a Pentium 133, the other is a Pentium 3, 400. <br><br>2) The Pentium 133 is using an ISA NIC card and the 400 is using a PCMCIA card. <br><br>3) By converting the 10M bits/ second to bytes, that would be 1.25M... -
ethernet speed
What influences the speed of ethernet? I hooked up two computers for file transfer using a simple peer to peer connection with 2 10Mb/s ethernet cards. The file transfer was no faster than using a serial cable and communicating at 115200bps. Is ethernet...
