[wellylug] Nforce4 motherboard and underperforming network

Cliff Pratt enkidu at cliffp.com
Sat May 5 18:29:19 NZST 2007


Jamie Dobbs 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?
> If I am best to purchase a new network card does anyone have any 
> suggestions for a reasonably priced Gigabit card?
> 
Maybe half-duplex versus full duplex? You should be able to feed 
parameters to the module.

Cheers,

Cliff




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