Low internet speed

[JonVO]

Claude Jones wrote:

>I too am having this problem. I built this machine at work, where I
>connect via switch and firewall to a T1. I moved the machine home where
>I connect via a Linksys router to wireless broadband. Here are the
>results of your suggested tests:
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>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:C0:F0:49:80:0C
>          inet addr:192.168.2.105  Bcast:192.168.2.255
>Mask:255.255.255.0
>          inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:f0ff:fe49:800c/64 Scope:Link
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:16380 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:15728 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4
>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>          RX bytes:8110585 (7.7 MiB)  TX bytes:1428328 (1.3 MiB)
>          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4f00
>
>dmesg | grep eth0
>divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
>eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0x1a834f00, 00:C0:F0:49:80:0C, IRQ
>10.
>eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of
>45e1.
>eth0: no IPv6 routers present
>
>Both Evolution and Firefox are painfully slow, and take forever to do
>anything. There do seem to be a lot of errors occurring on the
>connection. I'm not sure what to make of the second command response.
>How can this be fixed? 
>
>On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 07:53 -0500, Don Woodward wrote:
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>>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 
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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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Thanks 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