On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 07:03:26PM +0300, Sergiu - IT wrote: > Hi, guys ! > I have a small network at home and I noticed something curious... When I > try to copy from one computer to another (the transfer is made through > the server - without a switch), the bandwidth is very low, about 2Mb/s. > Does anyone know why ? Another thing is that the bandwidth from the > server or from one of the "home" computers to the "outside" LAN is very > low too, about 700Kb/s up to 1.5Mb/s. Does anyone know why is that ? > Here is what ifconfig shows me :
My axiom with regard to Ethernet is "Autodetect doesn't." I notice your connected cards are all showing 100/Full duplex. I suspect the other sides of your connections think they have negotiated half duplex. A duplex mismatch on 100BaseT will often end up giving you around 1-3 Mb/s actual throughput after all the packet collisions. Try using ifconfig to fix speeds on *both* ends of each connection to 100/FD, then see what happens to the throughput. The xl and fxp drivers are both very reasonable drivers/cards, so assuming your wiring is solidly connected cat 5, you should get great throughput. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tiki Technologies Lead Programmer/Software Architect "I'm gonna tell my son to grow up pretty as the grass is green And whip-smart as the English Channel's wide..." -- 'Whip-Smart', Liz Phair _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"