[wellylug] Nforce4 motherboard and underperforming network

[Daniel Pittman]

"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.  

Uh-huh.  It surely is.

Anyway, if you want a gigabit card then an E1000 is the best option at
this stage.  Failing that pretty much anything with a Tigron3 chipset is
decent, with much of the rest of the Broadcomm range being OK.

Regards,
        Daniel
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