gigabit ethernet question

[Mike Bydalek]

Take a look at these to see what may be going on:

http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/pcattcp.htm

http://iperf.sourceforge.net/

Some other suggestions would be updating the drivers as well.

Regards,
Mike

On Feb 18, 2012, at 10:05 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com>
wrote:

 One of the machines runs windows xp.  The other runs either kubuntu 10.04
LTS or windows xp.  Sometimes I and moving large files and sometimes
smaller ones.  There's not a lot of difference between what os the machine
is running or what's being transferred.  Although the transfer speed does
drop a little when I'm moving small files.

I've read that cat6 is supposed to be used with gigabit ethernet, but i
didn't know at such a short distance it would matter.  The next time I go
to the store I'll get some cat 6.  If it doesn't make any difference at
least I'll have a spare bit of cable if I need it.

thanks

On 2/18/2012 21:43, Mike Bydalek wrote:

What's the data you're transferring?  Lots of small files (ie
pictures) or large files (ISOs, MP4s, etc)?

What's the OS of each side?

The problem could be your cable as 1000BASE-T was made to work with
Cat5, but Cat5 wasn't designed to work for 1000BASE-T.

Regards,
Mike

On Feb 18, 2012, at 9:36 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com>
<expat.arizonan at gmail.com> wrote:


 I have two computers sitting right next to each other connected via a
6 foot long piece of cat 5 I picked up at Wally World one day.  They
both have gigabit ethernet cards in them.  Both machines recognize the
connection as a gigabit connection, but I'm lucky to get half that.
Most of the time I get around 40%.

Is there anything I can do to get the connection to work a bit faster?

thanks
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