[PLUG] Hardware/Ethernet question

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

>From my Linux machine, I tried copying files from an old win95 machine
to a win2k machine over Samba.  I noticed that the reported transfer
rate was slower than my DSL download rate.

Opinions?

    * Is it just a matter of this being from one machine to another
      *via* a third machine?
    * Does the SMB layer have anything to do with it?
    * Or a slow hard drive on the 486/w95 machine?
    * Does it have anything to do with the fact that it is old 10 mb
      Ethernet instead of 100 mb?
    * If it is the Ethernet limitation, is it also slowing down my DSL?
    * Suggestions?


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