Re: Slow network connection
Shannon Menkveld wrote:
> Well, I finally got my Ruffian installed, and it now runs Potato quite well,
> except for one thing. When I connect to my Cox.net cable-modem connection,
> I get only about 2.5 - 6 kB/s. The same machine, unsing the same NIC and the
> same network settings, got about 350 kB/s at my buddy's house when
> installing packages from debian.org, using apt-get. He is also on Cox,
> although he is in a different area. Other than the location, the only other
> difference was that, at his house, my Alpha was connecting through a
> Speedstream SOHO router, and here, it's directly connected. Anybody got any
> ideas?
It's the onboard NIC you are using with the de245x (I think) driver?
The card seems to be very bad media at autonegotiation. Take a look at the
piece on the Ruffian on linuxalpha.org
Although I've fiddled with the driver to force it to use 100 mbps full
duplex and all the appropriate lights light up on my switch, performance
is well below that of the same card being forced into 10 mbps. At one
point, it was around 50-60KB/sec for large files.
The faq recommends getting a recent kernel and even changing the ports
on the hub. Didn't work for me, but ymmv.
regards,
Steffen
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