Asus A8V NIC issues

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 7/29/06, Matt <mattjen21 at gmail.com> wrote:
> David,
>
>  Over the past few days, I have replaced all of my network cable to CAT6
> cable.  It did not perform any better.  I have been using the program iperf
> on my LAN and these are the results.
>  [root]# iperf -s
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>  Server listening on TCP port 5001
>  TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>  [  4] local 192.168.*.* port 5001 connected with 192.168.*.* port 1914
>  [  4]  0.0-10.0 sec    508 MBytes    425 Mbits/sec
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  This is much better than what I originally posted.  93.3 Mbit/s
>
>  It may be a SAMBA thing.  I have looked into that and have not been able to
> make any improvements.
>  SFTP works a little better.  With SFTP I transferred 6.3GB in 5min which is
> 140Mbit/s.  Not close to what IPERF says my LAN speed is capable of.  I will
> try another switch this week.

I don't understand why you think throwing money (hardware) at the
problem is the solution.  Perhaps the problem is the windows box?
Have you tested any Linux -> Linux systems?  Have you measured
whethere there is an IO bottleneck or CPU bottleneck?


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