Just out of curiousity, I have another e1000.o question. I hooked two pc's up to each other with a crossover cable (so no switch needed), and started UDPcasting from one to the other without compression. I was using the 20030524 build. Top speed on the transfer was about 92Mbps. That's great and all, but the NIC is a gigabit ethernet NIC and I was hoping that there was some way to multiply that speed by ten (give or take). Is this something a user can do, or is this something that takes talent (as in coding skill)?
Nate Sbar.
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On Thursday 05 June 2003 22:03, Nathaniel Sbar wrote:
Just out of curiousity, I have another e1000.o question. I hooked two pc's up to each other with a crossover cable (so no switch needed), and started UDPcasting from one to the other without compression. I was using the 20030524 build. Top speed on the transfer was about 92Mbps. That's great and all, but the NIC is a gigabit ethernet NIC and I was hoping that there was some way to multiply that speed by ten (give or take). Is this something a user can do, or is this something that takes talent (as in coding skill)?
Nate Sbar.
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The transfer rate is just shy of 100Mbps. What is probably going on is that the cards are operating in some 100 Mbps compatibility mode. Try once connecting both machines to a switch (on which no other devices are connected). Possibly, the cards depend on a signal from a switch to go into Gigabit/s mode, which might not be present if you use a cross cable.
Also make sure that your cross cable has all 8 wires connected. Indeed, 100 Mbps ethernet only needs 4 wires out of the 8, so it is conceivable to have "cheap" cables where only 4 are connected. Gigabit ethernet needs all 8.
Regards,
Alain
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