[PLUG] How fast is my network, really?

[Carlos Konstanski]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:02:02 -0800
> From: John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;	civil and on-topic"
>     <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
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> Subject: Re: [PLUG] How fast is my network, really?
> 
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:12:01 -0800
> Kris <krisa at subtend.net> dijo:
>
>> John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>> desktop. By my calculation it ran at about 105 MB per minute. However,
>>
>> 105MB/m / 60 = 1.75MB/s
>>
>> 1.75MB/s * 8 = 14Mb/s
>>
>> That's quite low for gig, even on commodity desktop hardware.  I backed up a
>> server the other night to my T61 over GigE, and was getting 110MB/s (6600MB/m).

I can't be sure if you're talking about one computer or two here.  Is
the server you backed up at 110MB/s a different machine than the one you
are having trouble with?

What does mii-tool report?  Maybe something else in the connection is
negotiating the link down to a slower speed.

Carlos Konstanski