--On 6. december 2005 17:22 -0500 Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail dot com> 
wrote:

> On 12/6/05, Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal dash pc dot org> wrote:
>>
>> Keep in mind that CPU is only part of the picture.  Buss speed plays a
>> major roll here.  Try and have your high demand cards in separate
>> bussmastering slots.  Have a high speed buss, at the expense of a lower
>> speed chip.
>>
>
> Yeah, but the two go hand in hand for the most part.  A Celeron 433,
> or P3, has a much more capable bus than the old P166 he was using.
> And either/or is sufficient if all you need is 100 Mb wire speed.
> That's 200 Mbps through the PCI bus, or 25 MBps, of 133 MBps max PCI
> bus speed (about 18% of max, plenty of room to spare).
>
> If we were talking about 5+ 100 Mb NIC's, or gig NIC's, this would be
> a completely different story.  At this scale, bus speed isn't much of
> a factor once you get into the P3 range.
>
> -Chris


Just one thing: I have checked my upload to the server in DMZ and hence I 
can't get more than 7000 KBps, while download from the server in DMZ rocks 
at 16000 KBps.
Server is a Duron 900 with 632 MB RAM and two 40 GB HDD, NIC is 3c905C, OS 
is FreeBSD 5.4.
Any comment on that?

Sasa