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Orangelink firewire card only gives ~70Mbits/sec, what cood be the problem?

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wearetheborg

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Windows XP, I installed the given drivers, no change. It only gives ~5.6x with my external dvd drive(=70Mbits/sec). With a diff 1394a, I get full 16x.
What could possibly be the problem? I bought it off ebay, seller has offered to replace card if I ship mine back - I'm wondering if its worth it.
Could it be that the card is bad; or could there be some problem with the interface with the dvd enclosure. For the second case, I would have expected a speed of 100Mbits/sec, but thats not happening
 
Its a laptop card.
Initially, I used windows drivers - it gave 5.5x speed.
Then I installed orangelinks driver as instructed - it still gave 5.5x speed.
I dont get the 70Mbits/sec bottleneck - 100Mbps I cood understand, but why 70? Whats so special about it? Burnt a couple of discs - worked fine except for the speed.
 
The orangelink site says:
OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394b Host Controller; 100 Mbit/s (12.5 MB/sec); 200 Mbit/s (25 MB/sec); 400 Mbit/s (50 MB/sec); 800

So I'm wondering about the 70mbps bottleneck
 
Were the 5.6x and 16x results both obtained on the laptop, just with two different cards?
 
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Were the 5.6x and 16x results both obtained on the laptop, just with two different cards?
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That is correct. Same laptop, another brand card(1394a), also diff cable - with the orangelink one I have to use a special 6pin-9pin cable.
 
I use Firewire800 and after installing SP2 on XP it bottlenecked my Firewire800 {esp the networking} . I went with the Unibrain Drivers but it didn't help much so I reverted back to SP1. There's an article about it how things get bottle up @ THG so I susupect that is the proble because of the PCMIA avenue
 
Originally posted by: LED
I use Firewire800 and after installing SP2 on XP it bottlenecked my Firewire800 {esp the networking} . I went with the Unibrain Drivers but it didn't help much so I reverted back to SP1. There's an article about it how things get bottle up @ THG so I susupect that is the proble because of the PCMIA avenue
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THANK YOU, it was driving me nuts. :thumbsup:
That is exactly it, I even had the given bottleneck of 8Mbytes/sec .
I tried the unibrain drivers - and got full 16 x speed.
Any idea what happens 30 min after the computer is on? What if I'm in the middle of burning something on the external drive? Will the OS crash?
 
Wish I could but I don't use Firewire800 via Lappys/PCMIA because I can not get a deal on a card 😉...I suspect that the solution may be found in 2003-64 bit.

AFA the Burner even exceeding the limits of Firewire400, it won't happen unless my 1st Cup of coffee can inform me otherwise...so test and tell as we are all in new waters here 😉
 
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