connection-speed throttled?

[Auke Kok]

Remco Lubbers wrote:

>Hi Guys,
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>Op Sun, 11 Apr 2004 12:13:40 +0200 schreef Moritz Heiber aan Remco Lubbers
><rpl at concepts.nl>,Lunar general discussion list <lunar at lunar-linux.org>:
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>>Remco Lubbers wrote:
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>>>Well, I tried a few Lunar-mirrors and didn't get the downloadspeeds any higher
>>>than 15 Kb/s, with an average around 13 Kb/s. Maybe you get higher speeds
>>>because of your location?
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>>I really think this is a local network problem and certainly ain't Lunar 
>>related. Try checking for cables, NICs or your bandwidth.
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>You were right!
>I've put in a 3Com NIC and got a normal connection & transfer-speed
>immediately.
>The onboard via-rhine apparantly doesn't combine very well with the cisco 2950
>when they both are set to auto-negotiate: I set the cisco-port to 100mbps/full
>and the via-rhine NIC wouldn't connect any more, even though it auto-negotiated
>to 100mbps/full according to the logs.
>locking the via-rhine on 100mbps/full through the kernel-options did the trick.
>
>Downloading large files (500 Mb - 2 Gb) to another network over HTTP or FTP
>from this server now gives me an average speed of 1.85 - 2.0 Mb/s , which is
>significantly higher than the identical server, installed with another distro,
>reaching speeds up to 1.5 Mb/s :D
>
>Could it be, that the server lost speed because the switch and the nic kept
>negotiating during transfer? I still can't figure out why my other testserver,
>which is identical, doesn't have this problem ....
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>Anyways: I'm sorry for any commotion I may have caused by posting my problem
>prematurely, blaming Lunar! Mea culpa!
>

lol

well if the card drivers are based on mii you might twiggling the mii 
options, notably you'll have to dig into the kernel Documentation 
directory, or install miitool (I think it's built by reconfiguring 
net-tools). Hope that helps.

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