On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:26:20AM -0700, Digger Maus wrote:
Here is my issue:
I am running SuSE 7.3 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000, 300MHz P2, 128MB RAM, 6 GB HD and a 3Com PCMCIA LAN card 10/100MBit (Model 3CXFE575BT).
I am experiencing a very strange phenomena: When transferring files from another computer (Win2k, Linux, etc.) to my Linux laptop using a ftp client, I get a transfer rate of less than 10kByte/sec. The same happens, when getting a file from my Linux laptop from another ftp-server (Win2k) using the Linux ftp client. However, when pushing data from the Linux latop to any other computer, I am getting full-speed (>1MByte/sec) on a 10MBit LAN. To make things even more confusing, how about this: if I download stuff to my laptop from the Internet, I am also getting full throttle (200kB/sec - 800kB/sec, depending on the server). So, it can't be the network card itself.
I also have configured Samba on this laptop and when copying a file to a shared folder, I get an error message after some time. The Samba configuration is identical to another Linux server where it works just perfect.
So, what could be wrong?
Here is another observation: my NIC usually detects LAN speed automatically (10MBit vs. 100MBit), but not in this Linux laptop. I tested it on my home-LAN which is at 100MBit and the router definitely says that the NIC operates at 10MBit.
Could it be, that the driver doesn't really work with this NIC?
Any hint or help would be more than welcome - I am clueless...
Since you get full speed downloads with some applications and less than fill speed other times, that seems to point to an application issue. You mentioned that when you FTP from a Win2K server, it does not run at full speed. Have you tried a different FTP client? or a different FTP server on Win2K? Can you be more specific about which client apps work full speed with which servers and which client apps work slowly with which servers? Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net