Looks like I misread the interface details, it's just showing that its at 100mb rather than 1gb
I'll try running some speed tests tonight. -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On 15 Feb 2013 07:22, "Jon Spriggs" <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, its been some time since I followed up on this. > > I've done some more jiggling of my network, and I spotted last night that > the router is showing the uplink as being half duplex (I'm going off the > interface lights on the router). I changed the Ethernet cable, even swapped > the two Fon 2.0n devices I have over, and it's still showing half duplex. > > Last night, I installed (using opkg) the ethtool program to try to force > the interface to 100/full, but all it seems able to do is report that the > link is present. > > So, what do I need to try next? > > -- > Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs > On 15 Dec 2012 21:35, "Jon Spriggs" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry for the delay - it's been a crazy few days! >> >> See inline below. >> >> -- >> Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs >> >> >> >> On 12 December 2012 14:42, Matthijs Kooijman - Fon < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Jon, >>> >>> > When running a speedtest (via speedtest.net) from either wired or >>> wireless >>> > clients, I get approx 2Mb download speed. >>> Weird. Do you see the same speed when downloading actual files from a >>> fast source? >>> >> >> I'm afraid I didn't look at it, I was trying not to rant at the Virgin >> Media support guy, and then was back-peddling too hard to figure out where >> the issue came from. >> >> >>> In some tests a did a year or so ago, the 2.0n was able to do around >>> 94 Mbit/s, so there shouldn't be any fixed limit here. >>> >>> I guess there is some kind of problem, but I'm not really sure what it >>> would be. >>> >> >> I'm not actually convinced now that there was. I suspect it was more >> likely that I had other network traffic which was saturating the link when >> the FON device (with 4 populated interfaces) was connected, than when I had >> one device connected to test as per the support person's advice. I am >> getting slower speeds over WiFi (802.11n) than directly connected, but >> that's currently going to the "SuperHub" rather than the FON device, so I >> can't blame that either :) >> >> >>> > I get approx 58Mb download speed. Likewise, changing the Modem mode to >>> > Hub mode I have the same issue. >>> What is "Modem mode" and "Hub mode" exactly? >>> >> >> Modem = Media Converter (ish) - Fibre -> Ethernet >> Hub = Router + WiFi >> >> >>> > I've not particularly seen any signs of packet loss between the two >>> > devices, so I was wondering whether it might be processor use or >>> > something similar. >>> Perhaps if the CPU is somehow loaded with other tasks (transmission?), >>> it could be possible that the network throughput suffers, though I >>> haven't actually tested this. >>> >> >> The only thing being performed on the FON device is NAT, I run no >> applications aside from the OpenVPN (and even that wasn't being utilized at >> the time) >> >> >>> If your modem performs NAT in one of it's configuration, you could try >>> switching the Fonera to bridge mode, meaning it will connect its WAN and >>> LAN ports in a plain layer-2 switch / bridge configuration, removing the >>> need for packets to pass through the CPU at all. >>> >> >> I'm doing that at the moment, and it certainly fulfils my requirements >> for right now. >> >> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Matthijs Kooijman >>> >> >> Thanks for your help Matthijs. >> >> _______________________________________________ >>> Development mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://fonosfera.org/mailman/listinfo/development >>> >> >>
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