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To: Joe NYC who wrote (30013)	10/22/1998 7:54:00 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Jozef, Your theory about the entire task fitting into L1 cache has some merit but not enough to make 188MHz work like a PII/350. If there is any disk access in your code network access times will overwhelm CPU speed. After thinking on the problem, it HAS to be the network. When I installed my first 10/100 network, I noticed zero improvement over 10BaseT. But after a lot of futzing around I discovered that one of the patch cables wasn't up to snuff. A quick cable switch and access times improved 10-to-1! With Win95/98, two unloaded PCs with decent PCI network adapters will deliver >10 megabytes per second (not megabits) of read speed (write times depend upon the cache available on the server side). Craig