Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

[Stuart Howard <stuart.g.howard@gmail.com>]

I agree in that I am using whichever tool is available to measure the
speed  eg. konqueror file transfer dialog or bmon to monitor rate
however I am not talking optmisations here where the same tool would
be necessary
eg. win to lin 39Mb file > 6 minites
win to win 39Mb file <20 seconds all on same hardware and network

The network itself comprises 10/100 nic's and a linksys WAG54G
gateway/router which again is 10/100.
genstu ~ # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
tulip                  47264  0
genstu ~ # lspci
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] MX987x5 (rev 25)

I have tried the MTU method
genstu ~ # ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:4C:A2:28:FF
          inet addr:192.168.1.101  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:15600752 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:18100911 errors:4892 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4892
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2679344110 (2555.2 Mb)  TX bytes:764637378 (729.2 Mb)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb000
WinXP is now set to
rwin 13140
MTU 1500

router
MTU 1500

#############
Well ..

After writing all of this I went back to playing with it all and I
"think" I have somthing that could be considered to be acceptable.
using figures above I have acheived a speed [konqueror dialog] of around
2.6Mb/s ~ 22.6Mbps on a 300Mb file
which is a dramatic improvement really, though I have got to the point
where I have chased the issue round and up my .....

but that said transfers are not painful so I seem to have a reasonable
resolution
Thanks for reading.

stu

ps. The quicker I can cut my families ties to Mr Gates the better.


On 30/01/06, William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> How are you measuring this?  My first suspicion is that you are
> measuring on your machine and trying to compare the figures from
> different tools running on different OS's.
>
>
> You also dont say what type of network this is over - 10/100/1000 ??
> Also what hardware and drivers?
>
> BillK
>
>
> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:06 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a home LAN with a mix of dual boot, XP and Gentoo[<-- mine].
> > Now the basic problem is this :-
> > Transfer of file [eg. 200Mb]
> > Dual boot on XP    --  XP  speed approx 50Mbps
> > Dual boot on linux    --  XP  speed <= 1Mbps
>
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>


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