[Gllug] Observed speed of gigabit ethernet only about 1/4 or 1/5 of advertised

[- Tethys]

On 7/16/07, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:

> I'm getting 515 Mbps in one direction and still a measly 196 Mbps in
> the other.  It appears that it isn't the switch (which is good,
> because I won't need to send it back), but it is one or other of the
> network cards or the driver.  That's about the limit of my abilities
> to test because these are the only two machines in the house with
> gigabit ethernet.

A PCI 1000baseT card is only a tenner...

Tet

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