Slow connections with 3COM 3C905-TX

sysuh@kigam.re.kr sysuh@kigam.re.kr
Wed Aug 25 09:08:33 1999


Sven Wiebus wrote:
>The problem I have is, that most the time, I only get up/downlaodspeeds of
>about 10kBytes/s. Only sometimes, and then never for longer than some 30
>seconds at the beginning of a file transfer, I get speeds up to 800 kBytes/s
>(peers only have 10Mbit  connections). After this 30 seconds, if at all,
>speed falls back to about 8kBytes/s for the rest of the transfer.

Is there any error messages in your log file regarding the NIC?
If you have "eth0: Transmit Error" lines in the log, my patch
may be helpful.  However, the error message appears only if you have
enabled logging of kern.debug in your syslog.conf.
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sysuh