[AuckLUG] Re: [wellylug] Nforce4 motherboard and underperforming network

[Michael]

I used to have a few Nforce4 motherboards, and all of them perform very
well.
got around 12-13mb/s over 100baseT Lan.

The problem can be at chipset or network ( cable ,switch) since it is runs
very slow under windows, using Nvidia driver.

On 5/5/07, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>
> "Bruce Hoult" <bruce at hoult.org> writes:
> > On 5/5/07, Jamie Dobbs <jamie.dobbs at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> >> I have noticed that my Gigabit ethernet runs about half as fast under
> >> Ubuntu (approx. 1.5MB/s) using the forcedeth driver as it does in
> >> Windows using the Nvidia driver (approx 3.1MB/s). These figures are
> >> at a known network state copying the same files to and from the same
> >> location.  Is there anything I can do to tweak the forcedeth driver
> >> or am I best to just give up and buy a better supported Gigabit card
> >> for using under Ubuntu?
> >
> > That seems ridiculously slow in both cases.
>


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Michael