On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 01:03  AM, Emmanuel Gravel wrote:
> 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?

*** Mismatched MTU's between machines?

Misconfigured card setting between machines? (not running FULL/100)