I agree in that I am using whichever tool is available to measure the speed eg. konqueror file transfer dialog or bmon to monitor rate however I am not talking optmisations here where the same tool would be necessary eg. win to lin 39Mb file > 6 minites win to win 39Mb file <20 seconds all on same hardware and network
The network itself comprises 10/100 nic's and a linksys WAG54G gateway/router which again is 10/100. genstu ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by tulip 47264 0 genstu ~ # lspci 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] MX987x5 (rev 25) I have tried the MTU method genstu ~ # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:A2:28:FF inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:15600752 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:18100911 errors:4892 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4892 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:2679344110 (2555.2 Mb) TX bytes:764637378 (729.2 Mb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb000 WinXP is now set to rwin 13140 MTU 1500 router MTU 1500 ############# Well .. After writing all of this I went back to playing with it all and I "think" I have somthing that could be considered to be acceptable. using figures above I have acheived a speed [konqueror dialog] of around 2.6Mb/s ~ 22.6Mbps on a 300Mb file which is a dramatic improvement really, though I have got to the point where I have chased the issue round and up my ..... but that said transfers are not painful so I seem to have a reasonable resolution Thanks for reading. stu ps. The quicker I can cut my families ties to Mr Gates the better. On 30/01/06, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How are you measuring this? My first suspicion is that you are > measuring on your machine and trying to compare the figures from > different tools running on different OS's. > > > You also dont say what type of network this is over - 10/100/1000 ?? > Also what hardware and drivers? > > BillK > > > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:06 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have a home LAN with a mix of dual boot, XP and Gentoo[<-- mine]. > > Now the basic problem is this :- > > Transfer of file [eg. 200Mb] > > Dual boot on XP -- XP speed approx 50Mbps > > Dual boot on linux -- XP speed <= 1Mbps > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't" --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list