Display actual speed of ethernet connection

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Mon Apr 20 00:58:09 UTC 2009


Stewart Williams wrote:
>>>
>>> Dave Feustel wrote:
>>>> I just got a gigabyte switch for my home network and I still
>>>> haven't figured out how to display the tx/rx data rate of each
>>>> nic connected to the switch. Also, the leds for the F9 computer
>>>> is not lighted on the switch, although F9 is accessing the
>>>> internet. 
>>>>
>>>> What command will display the rx/tx data rates of each nic?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
> 
> Make sure you are using a cat 5e or 6 cable for gigabit. If the cable is
> old this could be why it only connects at 100Mb/s.
> 
You could have trimmed the message down to this, and done a better
job of communicating your advice. It makes things much easier to
read without the 2 pages of file listings.

Mikkel
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