[leaf-user] Fwd: Cable Modem speeds with Bering-uClibc

2007-02-25 Thread Andrew Haninger
(Sorry Izzy, I hit Reply and not Reply-All.) On 2/25/07, Izzy Blacklock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are you using to download? Do you maybe have ports that need to be forwarded to your laptop when it's behind the router? This is HTTP or FTP traffic. BitTorrent traffic seems to be equally

[leaf-user] Fwd: Cable Modem speeds with Bering-uClibc

2007-02-25 Thread Andrew Haninger
(Sorry, Eric. I hit Reply and not Reply-All.) On 2/25/07, Eric Spakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be a duplex mismatch, you can check the link errors with 'ip -s link' I looked up a bit about duplexing and this NIC after a friend suggested that. Here's what I get from that command: 3:

Re: [leaf-user] Fwd: Cable Modem speeds with Bering-uClibc

2007-02-25 Thread Eric Spakman
Hi Andrew, (Sorry, Eric. I hit Reply and not Reply-All.) On 2/25/07, Eric Spakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be a duplex mismatch, you can check the link errors with 'ip -s link' I looked up a bit about duplexing and this NIC after a friend suggested that. Here's what I get from that

Re: [leaf-user] Fwd: Cable Modem speeds with Bering-uClibc

2007-02-25 Thread George Metz
Andrew Haninger wrote: I don't think I explained the different IP well enough. I get assigned an from a completely different range IP and also a different gateway: Slow LEAF box: Snip! 71.72.x.x/22 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 71.72.x.x default via 71.72.96.1 dev eth0

Re: [leaf-user] Fwd: Cable Modem speeds with Bering-uClibc

2007-02-25 Thread Andrew Haninger
On 2/25/07, George Metz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is almost certainly an issue of half vs. full duplex. The only reason a hub would cause a problem is if you were using a hub to connect the router and the cablemodem. If the cablemodem is directly connected to the LEAF box, you should have

Re: [leaf-user] Fwd: Cable Modem speeds with Bering-uClibc

2007-02-25 Thread Tony
Andrew Haninger wrote: On 2/25/07, George Metz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is almost certainly an issue of half vs. full duplex. The only reason a hub would cause a problem is if you were using a hub to connect the router and the cablemodem. If the cablemodem is directly connected to

Re: [leaf-user] Fwd: Cable Modem speeds with Bering-uClibc

2007-02-25 Thread Andrew Haninger
On 2/25/07, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George is correct. I saw a similar issue with my business's switch. It was set to force 100M Full duplex and the cards on the machines were set to auto. They weren't switching to Full Duplex so while everything worked, it was slow and very heavy