It's standard cat5. And it's not cable that I crimped myself, it's
factory-made. However, I'm sure their quality control was only for
10BaseT since I got the cables with an old 3Com networking kit 5 years
ago (10BT hub + cables + 2x3c509 NIC's).

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 08:23, Carl Parrish wrote:
> Silly question I don't know much about this but I'm trying to get
> 100BaseTX to work in my internal network. Are you using CAT 5 or better
> cable?
> 
> On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 01:03, Emmanuel Gravel wrote:
> > I recently purchased a dual-speed full-duplex switch (TrendWare brand,
> > got it relatively cheap). Decided to check the speed by transfering
> > large files (more than 100MB). Linux to Windows, I get 2.4-2.8 MB/s.
> > Windows to Linux, I get 0.8 MB/s at best. I've tried transfering only
> > from one to the other, then full duplex transfers, and I get the same
> > numbers.
> > 
> > Now, to start with, 2.8MB/s is better than what I'd get at 10Mb/s but
> > it's not quite as fast as I expected it to be. But the other side of the
> > equation is pretty bad. Both cables between the computers and the switch
> > are the same, they're fully molded, factory quality, I got them when I
> > purchased my first (10Mb/s) hub. Network cards are Kingston KNE100TX on
> > the Windows system, and Intel EtherExpress 100's for the Linux system
> > (two, the Linux system is my firewall). Obviously all transfers of those
> > sizes are done on the internal IP's only, and using an FTP client on
> > Windows (push/pull).
> > 
> > Does anyone know how I could trace the issue and resolve it?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > 
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