[wellylug] Nforce4 motherboard and underperforming network

[Bruce Hoult]

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.  Those are the sort of
speed I'm used to getting from 802.11g wifi (2.5 - 3 MB/sec).
100baseT should be giving 10 - 11 MB/sec and gigibit should give you
your raw hard disk speed (usually 30 - 40 MB/sec) or faster if it's
program-to-program communication.