You cant expect a slower processor to accomodate these speeds. You would need st minimum a 1.0ghz chip. Remember you can only go as fast as the weakest link.. ---- Jim wrote: > Today I bought a couple of Trendnet TEG-PCITXR gigabit ethernet cards. > I put one in my windows box and one in my linux box. The linux box is a > dinosaur. It's a P166 running slackware 10.2 2.4.31 kernel. DMESG > shows the card is correctly identified and shows the following: > > eth1: Auto-negotiation Enabled. > eth1: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation. > > I watched iptraf as I copied a file from the windows box to the server. > Iptraf was showing the incoming rate on eth1 at around 28000 kbits/sec. > > Should I be getting better speeds than this or is this all I can expect > from my dinosaur. > > Thanks > > Jim in Phoenix > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss