Hi there, I read your problem, and has no solution (yet). However, I have several thing to say and maybe this could help you. 1. Hub (When you said you only got 10KByte/sec). Are you using Hub? Is the hub a bit "overloaded"? Is there any other computer on the same subnet transfering big file? 2. CPU Utilization. Is there by any change the 1st computer (the one that have 10kbps) CPU util already high when doing the ftp? Is it using ISA NIC? 3. Mobo PCI util? Is there by any change on that computer have several bandwith hog PCI card so that the NIC were not able to use full bandwith? 4. Cable Is there by any change the first (the 10kbps) cable was not good? 5. Routing? Gateway problem? On Thursday 06 June 2002 00:26, Digger Maus wrote:
Hi Everybody,
I am new to this group and don't know who responsive everybody is, but I am desperate enough to give it a try.
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...
-Uli