Once upon a time Friday 23 January 2004 6:38 am, Jonathan Christison wrote: > thanks for every one's help last time about this but its still slow... i > followed every ones advise and no change its still runs at 5mega bytes > per second over a 100 mega bits per second hub > then i realised when i was swaping files about on my fedora pc up stairs > on gkrellm the server is using rx not tx but yet there is a small amount > of tx packets flyin round my network. > do i need to configure my network card to use TX-100base some how ? > thanks for yore help again > > - Jonny Are you using a Hub or Switch? if your using a hub as stated above you will not get the full performance as only one machine can send traffic on the wire at a time so it has to stop and wait for ACK's is your network running full duplex or half duplex? mii-tool eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok you should get something like the above if you run mii-tool as root that is 100Mbit per sec Full duplex Dennis
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