Re: Low internet speed

Claude Jones wrote:

I too am having this problem. I built this machine at work, where I
connect via switch and firewall to a T1. I moved the machine home where
I connect via a Linksys router to wireless broadband. Here are the
results of your suggested tests:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:C0:F0:49:80:0C
         inet addr:192.168.2.105  Bcast:192.168.2.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
         inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:f0ff:fe49:800c/64 Scope:Link
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:16380 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:15728 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:8110585 (7.7 MiB)  TX bytes:1428328 (1.3 MiB)
         Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4f00

dmesg | grep eth0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0x1a834f00, 00:C0:F0:49:80:0C, IRQ
10.
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of
45e1.
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

Both Evolution and Firefox are painfully slow, and take forever to do
anything. There do seem to be a lot of errors occurring on the
connection. I'm not sure what to make of the second command response.
How can this be fixed?

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 07:53 -0500, Don Woodward wrote:

On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 18:43, Danesh Daroui wrote:

Hi all,

I am a FC3 user. I have connected a broadband internet CAT5 cable (8 Mbit/1 Mbit) to this system. Before FC3, I was using Windows XP and the speed was fine, but when I installed FC3, the speed got low dramatically

Sounds like you might have a duplex mismatch - you can use "ifconfig -a"
and look for excessive errors - if you are connecting to a switch you
should see none - if you are using a hub a few errors are OK.

Check the speed on the Fedora end using "dmesg | grep eth0" to see it
it's 10-half, 10-full, 100-half or 100-full duplex - make sure your
switch is the same.

Thanks for the info:
results of grep eth0:

dmesg | grep eth0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01043:80a7 bound to 0000:00:05.0

thats it? Obviously something up here but what?
JonVO