I'm transferring data from my Peg I to a wirless pc downstairs...and
it is very slow.. maybe almost as slow or a little bit quicker then
copying to a A500 floppy. LOL

In comparision: Using Samba with my A4000/060 + Genesis + AriadneII, the average transfer speed lay between 300kb and 450kb/sec using smbclient. When mounting shares with smb-handler, the speed dropped with around 30%.

Here (peg II G4) I have much lower results with Genesis + smbfs than with MiamiDX + smbfs. However, MiamiDX can be unstable with some options (like gateway).

(can't wait for amiTCP5)

Here it was vice-versa (Genesis being faster than MiamiDX) when it came to samba.

I have read about other people with basically the same hw-setup as myself, getting approximately ten times slower transfers. I believe this could strongly depend on the local samba configuration. I used DAYS to tweak mine.

Anyway, when I get my PEG, I'll see if I can get samba running as fast as before (hopefully faster), and eventually provide some tips.

Hi,

When I use smbfs to mount some dir on my PC and I would copy a big file from it to my Pegasos it would crash. After a short time the mousepointer freezes and nothing moves or talks or anything for that matter. Anyone got that too?

Coder

smbfs does about 3mb/sec on my peg1+miami.

it worked flawlessly until I reinstalled windowsxp... now I can read from win disks, but cant write anything to them (says "file already exists" for everything :)

is there morphos-native samba?

I'm running Genesis, PegI. I run SMBFS and mount my share like the
instructions said... this DAYS thing I have to look up. I'm not using
Miami because it would never work properly with my cable modem. Oddly
enough..I just rebooted and its copying alot faster now (rebooted
Peg).. I had MorphVNC running earlier..maybe that corrupted something
..? dunno.

I get a couple megs per second using Miami and samba. 100mb switch.

how are you testing speed?

using ftp

that doesnt test SAMBA though. Maybe there is a disk i/o tester I can
use and have it test out my share on the pc.

Just tried the following with my PegII and 300MHz pc:

One 43.548 kb test-file.

- Copied with Tango to pc: 288,4 KB/s
- Copied from pc to Ram: 361,8 KB/s (with Win Explorer)
- Copied to pc with DirOpus: 223,3 KB/s (mounted the pc share with SMBFS)

Spidey

Yeah, I only get 300 kbytes/sec over the my Samba 10 Mb link (Amiga to Peg, and Amiga to PC), but I get around 1.5 Mbytes/sec using FTP over the same link!

Who uses Genesis with satisfactory speeds ? Here, when downloading from the internet, with my DSL connection, when I reach 600 KBytes/s :)))) with MiamiDX, it's 150 KBytes/s max with Genesis... Any idea ?

Also, when mounting a share with smbfs, I have to wait 2 seconds when just listing a directory, while it's instant with MiamiDX...

I guess there are some settings somewhere !

I'm getting around 4,5 - 5mb/sec between a Peg2/G4+MiamiDX+smbfs&samba2.0.7 and an AthlonXP2000+WinXP peecee. In both directions. It's a little bit funny that the Pegasos still has some CPU available at this speeds (load was 65-70% according to the MOS Taskmanager), while the peecee practically stopped, even the mouse cursor movement slowed down and became jumpy... ;)

In my other test, using the above Pegasos and an A2000/B2060/Ariadne/MDX+MNI driver/Samba2.0.7/smbfs system, i got around 550-600k/sec, also in both directions. (With large files. Small files can drop the speed down to around 50k/sec. This is caused by the single-threaded desing of smbfs i think, which practically kills the 060.)

Just a note, if you experience low speeds with MiamiDX, try to disable IP NAT in the TCP/IP -> LAN connect window, if you don't need that feature always, because on my 060 this helped to speed up transfers from 150-200k/sec to ~600k/sec, or even up to 750k/sec with FTP transfers. (Again, large files only.)

About stability issues, i'm experiencing absolute no crashes with MiamiDX, works very well both on my Pegasos and also on my 060. My A2000/060 currenly has 13+ days uptime, and she's in heavy desktop use...

Hi mahen,

What's your download and upload speed in Mbits?

I have to say I didn't experience such large differences when I tried MiamiDX (demo) and now with Genesis (combined OS3.9+Aminet-demo version).

If I have to guess, I think MiamiDX is a little bit quicker than Genesis. I've got a 10 Mbit full duplex connection to the internet so I don't worry much about some KB losses
That's why I'm using Genesis (no connection breaks after 30 minutes).

You saw my speed comparison of Samba and that is awfully low. I think I'll try again these "tests" with MiamiDX.

Spidey

Hello Chain-Q,

How's your network setup?

I've got a wireless router on which my PegII, A1200 and 300MHz pc are connected.

Spidey

My network contain a Peg2 and an AMD PC connected via 100Mbit UTP, an A2000/060 and a PowerMac8500/AV (used as DSL gw w/ LinuxPPC) connected via 10MBit UTP to a Zyxel 10/100 mini-switch.

I have 6 computers (1x Peg, 5x PC) connected into my 10Mb ethernet. Speed isnt below 700kB/s and isnt over 900kB/s. When I have borrowed 10/100 SWITCH, speed was +- 2MB/s.

Samba works fine. Now, I can also print with SAMBA!