[wellylug] Nforce4 motherboard and underperforming network

[Jamie Dobbs]

Cliff Pratt wrote:
> 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
>
>
No, it's definitely running Full Duplex, I think it is just another case 
of bad hardware support due to Nvidia not giving out information.