kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:40, Tom Patton wrote:
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 23:36 -0600, M Harris wrote:
I would recommend the Skylink 8 Port switch... relatively inexpensive, and very fast (does 10/100,. and keeps track of 100 or 10 separately) for the money for a wired network.
I'd suggest buying a gigabit switch to cover future upgrades. My 2-yr old Asus MB interface is gig, and a gig card in the kids computer was very inexpensive...and blazing fast! I have the 5-port Linksys EG005W, and it handles /10 (HP Laserjet printer) /100 (2 laptops) &/1000 (2 pc's) flawlessly. But definately toss the hub! Tom
Thanks for the suggestion, there is no question that the hardware will be changed. But I am curious why only my suse operation gets hit. Even the vmware virtual network card vmnet1, which is mapped to eth0 manages to pull and push its packets cleanly thru eth0! I think i will install a linux virtual machine before i switch, just curious if the packets see the difference!!!
One thought is that Windows doesn't back off properly after collisions or otherwise behave nice. It wouldn't be the first time MS has violated spec. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org