DLink NIC poor network performance

Hi all

I've a DLink DXE530TX NIC in this PC. If I set its speed to 100FDX it runs
like a dog. If I let it auto-negotiate, it's faster, but still not up to
what I'd expect. The LEDs are lit on both the switch and the card which
suggest that it should be running at 100FDX, but the throughput is lousy
compared to (say) the 3Com 3C940 in one of the other PCs.

Does anyone else here have any experience of these NICs? Any ideas what I can
do to fix this? Or are they just crap?

There don't seem to be driver updates available, the DLink site just tells
me that the drivers are built in to XP.

Any help appreciated...

Jon.

"Jon Myatt" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> I've a DLink DXE530TX NIC in this PC. If I set its speed to 100FDX it runs
> like a dog. If I let it auto-negotiate, it's faster, but still not up to
> what I'd expect. The LEDs are lit on both the switch and the card which
> suggest that it should be running at 100FDX, but the throughput is lousy
> compared to (say) the 3Com 3C940 in one of the other PCs.
>
> Does anyone else here have any experience of these NICs? Any ideas what I
can
> do to fix this? Or are they just crap?
>
> There don't seem to be driver updates available, the DLink site just tells
> me that the drivers are built in to XP.
>
> Any help appreciated...
>
> Jon.

What operating systems do you have on the machines?

If you have xp on one & 98/ME on the other then file transfer performance is
cack in one direction or the other (can't remember which!). I struggled with
it for months before upgrading the second machine to XP - problem solved.
ISTR reading somewhere that there is something not quite right with the
98/ME IP stack.

HTHG

rgds

I.

Jon Myatt wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've a DLink DXE530TX NIC in this PC. If I set its speed to 100FDX it runs
> like a dog. If I let it auto-negotiate, it's faster, but still not up to
> what I'd expect. The LEDs are lit on both the switch and the card which
> suggest that it should be running at 100FDX, but the throughput is lousy
> compared to (say) the 3Com 3C940 in one of the other PCs.
>
> Does anyone else here have any experience of these NICs? Any ideas what I can
> do to fix this? Or are they just crap?
>
> There don't seem to be driver updates available, the DLink site just tells
> me that the drivers are built in to XP.
>
> Any help appreciated...
>
> Jon.

Sure the cable isn't shit?

> What operating systems do you have on the machines?
>
> If you have xp on one & 98/ME on the other then file transfer performance is
> cack in one direction or the other (can't remember which!). I struggled with
> it for months before upgrading the second machine to XP - problem solved.
> ISTR reading somewhere that there is something not quite right with the
> 98/ME IP stack.

Hmm, thanks - XP on two, RH Linux on another. It's ok from the other XP machine
to the linux machine though, so it's definitely pointing at the network card,
or something with this PC.

Jon.

> Sure the cable isn't shit?

I've tried it on three different cables now and all are the same.

Jon Myatt wrote:

>>Sure the cable isn't shit?
>
>
> I've tried it on three different cables now and all are the same.

Must be driver related then...