First post, by H3llR4iser
Hey folks,
first post on Vogons, although I've been "lurking" around for over a year.
Getting to the point, I've recently (re)-built a nice "late 486"-class retro system:
AMD 5x86-133@160
LuckyStar 486E-Rev.F
16MB of FPM RAM
SB16
S3 Virge/DX (cheated a bit here, I know it's a later card...but it's quite a bit faster than the only other PCI card I have, a SiS6202)
Usual CF-Card instead of a spinning drive
I've found a bunch of PCI 10/100 network cards in my stash, they all have some variation of the Realtek 8139 chip; I tested a few on the RetroPC, they all work but...I'm seeing a weird thing where they run VERY slowly under windows 3.11 (with the TCP/32 add on); Downloading and uploading files from and to my NAS via WS_FTP peaks out at about 300KB/s in upload, and 800KB/s in download (and I have to use the driver in real mode for that, otherwise it just hangs).
It would be ok anyway...if it wasn't that I tried running the same under Windows 95 OSR2 and the FTP transfers reach about 9/10 MBps, both in upload and download...
So I'm wondering if I have a wonky RTL8139 Win 3.11 driver, there's some setting I'm missing (I used Windows 3.1/3.11 extensively in the 90s, but never dealt with networking on it) or it's just a plain old limitation of the sorta "tacked on" nature networking has on Win 3.11. Any advice?
Thanks in advance!