On 23/01/13 09:43, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 01/23/2013 10:35 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Bob Williams wrote:
On 23/01/13 08:59, Per Jessen wrote:
Bob Williams wrote: I guess you've also got a gigabit switch?
Not sure what you mean. The card will connect to a Draytek Vigor 2800v ADSL2/2+ router.
Then there's no point in getting a gigabit NIC - your ADSL line doesn't (presumably) give you more then 24Mbit/s?
A gigabit NIC will only be useful if whatever it connects to (usually a switch) also does gigabit speeds.
What about other devices connected to the same router? I didn't find specs for that router, but if it has a gigabit NIC and other devices, too, then upgrading *will* make sense.
Have a ncie day, Berny
On the LAN, there is a wireless access point connected, which provides connectivity to two laptops, printer, and smartphone. The WAN side is a copper cabled POTS line a few km from the exchange. The reason I wanted to 'upgrade' this machine was that it seems very slow compared to the two laptops when interacting online. For example, although they have a different set of repositories, this machine crawls through the process of updating the repos compared to the laptops. It is using the onboard nVidia MCP51 Ethernet controller, using the forcedeth kernel driver. The CPU is Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9400 running at 2.66GHZ, with 8Gb RAM. Running openSUSE 12.2 x86_64. Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 3.4.11-2.16-desktop Distro: openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64) with KDE Development Platform: 4.9.5 "release 3" Uptime: 06:00am up 8 days 13:12, 5 users, load average: 0.16, 0.28, 0.81 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org