Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)
On Mar 25, 2:40 pm, Florian Kulzer <florian.kul...@icfo.es> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 22:17:35 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 07:24:25 -0700, Dave Stephenson wrote:
>
> > [...]
>
> > > The network interface is integrated into the Asus M2N-e motherboard
>
> > > from lspci:
> > > 00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2)
>
> > > from ifconfig
> > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:86:8C:92
> > > inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0
> > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1
>
> ^^^^^^^
>
> I had missed this when I sent my last message: Your MTU (Maximum
> Transfer Unit) is a bit small. Try to run as root
>
> ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500
>
> and check if this improves your external connection speed. You can usehttp://www.testmy.net/to measure your download and upload rates.
mtu 1500 at least doubled my speed. Looks like that was most if not
all of my problem.
I will fiddle with the value in the morning when the net is quiter.
Thanks for your help.
Dave
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