Low internet speed

[JonVO]

Don Woodward wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 18:43, Danesh Daroui wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>>I am a FC3 user. I have connected a broadband internet CAT5 cable (8 
>>Mbit/1 Mbit) to this system. Before FC3, I was using Windows XP and the 
>>speed was fine, but when I installed FC3, the speed got low dramatically 
>>! The only change I have made is that I used a long cable (Maybe 8 m or 
>>more) to connect that system to internet. Can it be a reason that could 
>>increase the error rate ? I use a wireless LAN and can use a USB 
>>wireless adapter but I am not sure if FC3 is compatible with wireless 
>>networks or not, however it says it does. Have anyone any suggestions or 
>>experience about this problem ?
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>Your 8m cable length is not an issue - is this a pre-made cable or one
>you made?
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>Sounds like you might have a duplex mismatch - you can use "ifconfig -a"
>and look for excessive errors - if you are connecting to a switch you
>should see none - if you are using a hub a few errors are OK.
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>Check the speed on the Fedora end using "dmesg | grep eth0" to see it
>it's 10-half, 10-full, 100-half or 100-full duplex - make sure your
>switch is the same.
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Thnaks for the info:
results of grep eth0:

dmesg | grep eth0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01043:80a7 bound to 0000:00:05.0

thats it? Obviously something up here but what?
JonVO