Many thanks, but the problem with that is i work at a university, and the only connection we have is a little ( or in my case lots ) of little box's on the wall.
We haven't access to the main switches and routers :( there big guys access only. The reason I'm asking is that last night i dumped 8Gig over the net from a samba with an Intel 10/100 running at 100, to a nt with an Intel nic running at 100, and it went out at 2Mb/second. Now on my other samba, which has a 10Mb 3Com, it only sends at 1Mb/s on a very good day. Now the history of the 3com machine is, originally we were on 10base2 ( coax ). And this machine was connected through a 10Mb hub and then went down the coax, and then when we had 100Mb lines put in, it went strait to the wall. On the hub going down the coax the nic's had to be at half duplex. I don't think, when we switched over to 100M i changed the duplex settings. Which i believe would explain the difference in transfer speed. If i can get 2M/s out of a 100M nic then i should get the same out of the 10M nic. many thanks -----Original Message----- From: Lanman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 December 2002 11:43 AM To: Mandrake List Subject: Re: [newbie] NIC Card set-up details Ken; Most NIC's, hubs switches, etc. will display the speed of your connections by using 2-color LEDS. The general rule-of-thumb is that a 10Mb connection will show an amber or yellow LED color on the NIC, hub, etc., and a 100 Mb connection will show a green LED. The owners manual for your NIC, hub, etc., will also tell you whether or not they support this standard. So, tests are not required, just a little bit of "light" reading. Hope this helps(?). Lanman On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 06:19, Ken Walker wrote: > Is there any way of finding out if a 3com 508 is in half or full duplex mode > without shutting down the server and running 3coms set-up program. > > Come to think of it, is there any way of finding out if ANY NIC is in 10 or > 100 mode and full / half duplex without shutting down the machine. > > Many Thanks > > Mr Smiley > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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