On Sat, 28 May 2005, Stuart Howard wrote: > I have a small LAN at home with 2 winXP and 1 Gentoo [genstu] machines > connected through a combined ADSLrouter etc. > I have a problem whereby, I seem to have very slow data transfer > speeds between my Gentoo machine and my XP machines as a guide here > are some figures > > Transfer of a 66Mb file :- > XP->gen 90 secs 700KB/s > gen->XP 30 secs 2700KB/s > XP->XP 7 secs ?KB/s > > The share on genstu is samba and I have also tried Winscp which gives > a little improvement in performance but not much. > The hardware is all relatively new and the NIC's were cheap and > cheerful but 10/100.
Does the ADSL router have a built-in switch or are you using an external one? Or a hub? Do you know at what speed the cards auto-negotiate with your switch? (I use mii-diag to check that). -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
