loss of band width

Hi

I sometimes seem to suffer from loss of bandwidth, but only on my
Linux Mandrake 9.2 box. My wife's W2K laptop seems to get all the band
width from the Vigor 2900 G router. This router is connected to the
Speedtouch 510 which is connected to the net.

When I use speedtest.nl to check my download speed it becomes as low
as 55 kpbs. On other days, that is without changing config on the
modem and the router, it rises to ~900 kpbs.

The windows box reports ~900 kpbs almost all the time. My provider
says my download band width = 1120.

The linux box has an old 10 Mb network card, and the laptop has a 100
Mb one.

Can anyone shine a light on this issue.

Jan

(E-Mail Removed) (jhvdven) wrote news:4a232ab7.0408250211.3167a582
@posting.google.com:
> When I use speedtest.nl to check my download speed it becomes as low
> as 55 kpbs. On other days, that is without changing config on the
> modem and the router, it rises to ~900 kpbs.

> The linux box has an old 10 Mb network card, and the laptop has a 100
> Mb one.

It may be a collision problem, that cause ethernet packet retransmission.

Check you collision and carrier number (ifconfig -a). If the number are
hight (they should be near 0) that's it.

Carrier is a cable problem, collision is a cable or ethernet config error.

For the cable : change it.
For the ethernet config, try to install a 100Mb/s or test in halt and full
duplex (using mii-tools or card specific tools (3c5x9setup, vortex-diag,
....)).


Hope it may help.

Regards

Antoine EMERIT <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<XnF95528E7B853FAantoineemerit@212.27.42.71>. ..
> (E-Mail Removed) (jhvdven) wrote news:4a232ab7.0408250211.3167a582
> @posting.google.com:
> > When I use speedtest.nl to check my download speed it becomes as low
> > as 55 kpbs. On other days, that is without changing config on the
> > modem and the router, it rises to ~900 kpbs.
>
> > The linux box has an old 10 Mb network card, and the laptop has a 100
> > Mb one.
>
> It may be a collision problem, that cause ethernet packet retransmission.
>
> Check you collision and carrier number (ifconfig -a). If the number are
> hight (they should be near 0) that's it.
Numbers are both zero.
>
> Carrier is a cable problem, collision is a cable or ethernet config error.
>
> For the cable : change it.
Done that.
> For the ethernet config, try to install a 100Mb/s or test in halt and full
> duplex (using mii-tools or card specific tools (3c5x9setup, vortex-diag,
> ...)).
The shops are closed now....

>
>
> Hope it may help.
>
> Regards

I am thinking now it might be related to the zeroconf host name. I am
running some tests now.

Thanks for the input.