From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G5JaA-0002OC-Mc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:52:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6P9ntcg001790; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:49:55 GMT Received: from pih-relay04.plus.net (pih-relay04.plus.net [212.159.14.131]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6P9jlLD029037 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:45:47 GMT Received: from [212.159.109.207] (helo=pc2.homenet.com) by pih-relay04.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1G5JU0-0006lR-Ot for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:45:45 +0100 From: Paul Stear Organization: appjaws To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] interconnecting speeds Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:45:31 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200607241704.52355.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> <200607242016.17439.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> <7573e9640607250107oda5216cj53b30fd720118fc6@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7573e9640607250107oda5216cj53b30fd720118fc6@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607251045.31677.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> X-Archives-Salt: a69d9bf0-50ba-4edb-8233-368c968ba91a X-Archives-Hash: b3038682dfeef7e01e0c3a60e46dd12c On Tuesday 25 July 2006 09:07, Richard Fish wrote: > On 7/24/06, Paul Stear wrote: > > Yes it is just very slow, the mesage stalled keeps coming up and then > > starts again. > > Double check what the connection speed is for XP. You can do the same > using ethtool under Linux. You should see 100mbit, full duplex on > both. > > One problem could be if you have flaky cables, the switch or the NICs > could attempt to re-negotiate the link speed frequently, and kill your > bandwidth. > > So I would try different cables, or maybe even pick up an inexpensive > ethernet switch (not "hub"!), and see if that makes a difference. > Maybe it is a problem with the switch in the router... Thanks Richard, My gentoo box is set ok using ethtool. How do I check the setting on the windows xp box? Downloading files from the internet on windows is as fast as my gentoo box, the problem seems to be when they are talking to each other. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list