[Aurora-sparc-user] Ultra 1 as home router

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 18:10 -0600, John Zbesko wrote:
> So I measured my Comcast cable broadband speed both directly to an AMD64
> FX PC and then through my Ultra 1 with 10Mbit onboard ethernet connected
> to the cable modem and a 100Mbit card facing the AMD64 (through a
> gigabit switch.)
> 
> The download speed through the Ultra is 80% of the direct connection and
> the upload speed is less than half, 47%! (4103kbps vs. 5044kbps and 168
> vs. 358)
> 
> The Ultra is running 2.4.27-3-sparc64. Firestarter is my choice for
> configuring a firewall. The Ultra is also running Apache2, X, dhcp and
> samba servers, sshd and has 384 MB RAM.
> 
> Is this expected?! Should I just give up on this obsolete hardware?

SBUS 10Mbit is going to be slower than PCI 100MBit. 2.6 might give it a
boost.

~spot