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Posted: **Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:01 am**

hi guys,

I was wondering why I only got U: 2-3MB/s and D: 10-11MB/sec

I found a reason: for some reason my hardware in the amahi server has gigabit capabilities, but is not using it:

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[root@amahi jochen]# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                             100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
        Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
        Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 100Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: MII
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Supports Wake-on: pumbg
        Wake-on: g
        Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
                               drv probe ifdown ifup
        Link detected: yes

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[root@amahi jochen]# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:F6:4D:0E:33
          inet addr:192.168.178.11  Bcast:192.168.178.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:f6ff:fe4d:e33/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:35203117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:45012374 errors:0 dropped:51 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2147856838 (2.0 GiB)  TX bytes:261370653 (249.2 MiB)
          Interrupt:16

hardware screendump:

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[root@amahi jochen]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237/VX700 PCI Bridge
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Et                                                                hernet (rev 10)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (r                                                                ev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/                                                                C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller                                                                 (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller                                                                 (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller                                                                 (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller                                                                 (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T89                                                                0 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 A                                                                C97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M80                                                                0 CE/VN800 [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01)

any advise?

Posted: **Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:34 am**

What type of router is your hda connected to?

It looks like your router only supports 100Mbs:

Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full

Both ends of the link would need to support 1000Mbs.

Posted: **Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:19 pm**

What type of router is your hda connected to?

It looks like your router only supports 100Mbs:
Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Both ends of the link would need to support 1000Mbs.

router supports it, because my HTPC running W7 is getting 1GB connection from the same router...I'll check if a different port on the router solves it.

The router is one supplied ny my provider, ZIGGO: UBEE EVW320B

I noticed the server was connected using Cat5 cable, so made a new cable using Cat6.
wired by this example: using 568A

but there is no difference in the two examples, apart from the coloring...in basic they are the same...

tried to change the connection on the router with the HTPC, wich is getting GB, but the HTPC gets gigabit on the other port and I still dont...

so its not the cable, not the router, so it must be the server...

but still no gigabit connection....

Posted: **Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:32 pm**

sorry.

I had to reboot the server to get the net cable to provide gigabit speeds...just restarting the network didnt do it.

I now have gigabit speed.

U: 15-22mb/sec
D: 15-22mb/sec

still not very good, but a lot faster then the previous values...any ideas on speeding thing up would be appreciated

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[root@amahi jochen]# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Advertised pause frame use: No
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                             100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                             1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
        Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: MII
        PHYAD: 0
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Supports Wake-on: pumbg
        Wake-on: g
        Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
                               drv probe ifdown ifup
        Link detected: yes

Posted: **Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:23 pm**

It will depend where the data is being transferred from/to.

If both the source and destination are on your own network through Gbit hardware, then there might be disk transfer or driver problems.

On the other hand, if you are trying to transfer with a source on the internet, you could be limited by the ISP or some point(s) in between.

How are you performing the test?

Posted: **Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:20 pm**

I am moving files fro and to the server from a Windows 7 machine over my gigabit network with only the modem-router in between...so intranetwork traffic.

server is SATA150 i believe and the w7 machine is IDE

both machines have GB cards and cables are CAT6.

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