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From: desnoyer@apple.com (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: More about NCSA Telnet FTP speed
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Date: 18 Aug 89 22:04:13 GMT
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Well, after all the discussion back and forth about FTP speed on the 
Macintosh, I went out and did a few experiments. All of these were with 
NCSA Telnet 2.3, with a release letter dated July 15. Make of it what you 
may. Disclaimer - I am not speaking for Apple, your mileage may vary, etc.

   Sun 3 -> Macintosh II, NCSA Telnet with NCSA TCP code -
        4.4kbyte/sec ASCII, 4.9kbyte/sec binary

   Sun 3 -> Sequent Balance (for comparison) (didn't have 2 sun accounts)
        75kbyte/sec ascii, 212kbyte/sec binary

   Sun 3 -> Macintosh II, NCSA Telnet with MacTCP, 8000 byte write buffers
        35kbyte/sec ascii, 45kbyte/sec binary

   Sun 3 -> Mac II, NCSA Telnet with MacTCP, 65536 byte file buffers
        43kbyte/sec ascii, 45kbyte/sec binary

   Sun 3 -> Mac II, NCSA Telnet, MacTCP, write calls commented out 
   (no disk traffic)
        49kbyte/sec ascii, 48kbyte/sec binary

   File write benchmark, Mac II with SC80 hard drive -
        8000-byte buffers - 277kbyte/sec
        30000-byte buffers - 452kbyte/sec
        100000-byte buffers - 385kbyte/sec
[note - I'm not too confident in this benchmark, especially the 
452kbyte/sec figure. ]

                                      Peter Desnoyers
                                      Apple ATG
                                      (408) 974-4469