lan bandwidth issue

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:25:12AM -0700, silent slim wrote:
> >From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd at akruijff.dds.nl>
> >To: silent slim <silentslimwashere at hotmail.com>
> >CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >Subject: Re: lan bandwidth issue
> >Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 02:52:47 +0100
> >
> >On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:13:34PM -0700, silent slim wrote:
> >> This has gotta be a software issue... it seems logically impossible for
> >> it to be otherwise.  I have my windows box running off a nat on my fbsd
> >> box, it transmits to my isp at a max of about 160k down 70k up.
> >> Transfering files between the two boxes can be done at a max of 1.6M 
> >down
> >> and 130k up. Hense its physcially impossible for it to be a hardware
> >> problem.  This is all quite annoying as both boxes are connected by
> >> 
> >http://www.startech.com/ststore/itemdetail.cfm?tab=b&ProductID=ST100S&topbar=topbara.htm
> >> 10/100 nics and a 50' crossover cable.  Anyone have any ideas on what is
> >> causing this issue and how it could possibly be resolved?
> >>
> >
> >Right now I don't have much to go on. What problem do you have?
> 
> i'd like the network to go at 100Mbps since both cards could be able too 
> and the current speeds are laughable.

Most network cards still realy heavly on you computer CPU. There for you
souldn't expert 10MBps out of it.

Secondly, how do you transfer your data? If you use Samba then you
should also expect a loss in speed, and you might consider switching to
ftp.


-- 
Alex

Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/