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saimike

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hi guys,

i just loaded a laptop (dell latitude with xircom pcmcia 10/100 nic) with mandrake 9.1 not too long ago and got most of what i want it to do to work. however, i noticed that the date rate i'm getting isn't quite as good as i had hoped it would be. my network is 10/100 all the way.

when this laptop was running win2k, i was able to get a date rate of 50Mbps or more (it bounces a lot between 50-70Mbps and wasn't really stable). with linux, i'm getting about 37Mbps with the same equipment. the only diff was i now use wsftp after the laptop is running linux vs windows network neighborhood when the laptop was running win2k.
 
Originally posted by: saimike
hi guys,

i just loaded a laptop (dell latitude with xircom pcmcia 10/100 nic) with mandrake 9.1 not too long ago and got most of what i want it to do to work. however, i noticed that the date rate i'm getting isn't quite as good as i had hoped it would be. my network is 10/100 all the way.

when this laptop was running win2k, i was able to get a date rate of 50Mbps or more (it bounces a lot between 50-70Mbps and wasn't really stable). with linux, i'm getting about 37Mbps with the same equipment. the only diff was i now use wsftp after the laptop is running linux vs windows network neighborhood when the laptop was running win2k.
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Um, since when has wsftp had a linux client? Look into setting up Samba for linux so you can do file sharing with other PCs on the network using SMB (what Windows filesharing is). As for the drop in speed, the only suggestion I can make is that something more than your client/server software changed, or there is something inherently wrong with your setup. Please describe in detail the situations in which these slow speeds occur (what type of machine is connecting to what other type of machine, how your network is wired, etc).
 
i have a 4 port dlink 10/100 router connected to a cablemodem. i have a couple of pc's hooked up to the router, but the 2 that i use most often is:

1. laptop is a dell latitude p3-700 (or thereabouts) running mandrake 9.1 with a xircom 10/100 pcmcia nic.
2. desktop is a celeron 1.1 running win2k with all the current patches and a linksys (i think) 10/100 nic in pci.

b4, when the laptop was running win2k, i'd copy files from the laptop to the desktop (ie. sit in front of the laptop and copy files over windows network neighborhood). this got me a data rate of 50-70Mbps.

now, when the laptop is running mandrake, i'd ftp files from the laptop to the desktop (ie. sit in front of the desktop and use wsftp to "get" files from the laptop). this got me a data rate of 37Mbps.

there were no hardware changes save for a newer sound card on the desktop. that sound card does not share an irq with the network card. and this is why i suspect the drop in speed is caused by non-optimized settings on the laptop. being a linux newbie, i'm not sure where i should go to tweak the settings and would appreciate any help i can get.

has anyone experienced this b4?
 
After a bit of googling, it looks like the problem may be specifically with Xircom cards and Xircom's unwillingness to open up their drivers. A suggestion would be to live with the transfer rate, or perhaps if it is highly important for you, get an alternate PCMCIA card. Anything from 3Com should be supported well under both OSes.
 
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