Re: need advice on fixing my home lan

[Jonathan Matthews <jaycee.no.spam.here.please@jaycee.uklinux.net>]

Paul E Condon had the gall to say:
> I have a small LAN in my home. I need some advice on tuning it. 
> 
> I've started working on a project wherein I move large files (>3GB)
> between two Debian boxes. This is a slow process. I would like to be
> sure that it goes as fast as is reasonable. I think all my LAN cards
> are claimed by their makers to be 10/100, but for some this might be
> marketing hype. All my cables are 'CAT5'. So, some questions:
> 
> How do I determine whether my lan is passing data at 10 or 100 MHz?

I'd set up some sort of plain (i.e. not scp) data transfer test between 
the hosts.  A temporary internal ftp/http server should do fine.

Then do a "wget http://my.other.local.ip/a.large.file/"; and see what the 
average data rate is.  ~1 meg per second == 10Mbps connection, ~10 megs 
per second == 100 Mbps connection.

Cheers,
jc