Hi Guys,
That was it, I swapped the cable and bingo I got higher transfer rates... It
looks like this was quite an old ethernet cable.
Thanks for the help!
On Monday, May 5, 2014 9:16 PM, Christopher Hilton <ch...@vindaloo.com> wrote:
On May 5, 2014, at 2:19 PM, Tuomo Latto <d...@iki.fi> wrote:
> On 28.04.2014 09:42, ML mail wrote:
>> I am using OpenBSD 5.1, would their be any performance gains in upgrading to
>> 5.4 or 5.5? Btw yes I checked again and the interface is really in 1000baseT.
>
> How about the cables?
>
Great point. That's bitten me in the a** before. Make absolutely certain that
you have a cable with all 4 pairs wired in. 100Mbit ethernet only used two
pairs, Gigabit uses all four. If you connect a gigabit port with a two pair
cable the best you can do is 100Mbit/s. Also, unless you are going some major
distance Cat5e cable is sufficient. In fact cat 5 cable will do 1Gb/s over
short distances. When I got burned by this it turned out that the cable I got
with my 3Com <something-or-other> only terminated pairs 1 and 2. As I said
before, that's sufficient for Fast-Ethernet but not for Gigabit-Ethernet.
-- Chris
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