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To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
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Subject: Re: Strange one-sided network slowdown...
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Philip Hallstrom schrieb:
> 
> Hi all -
>         I recently reconfiged my home network.  My gateway is a P400
> running 4.2-20010214-STABLE.  The internal interface is rl0 (a D-Link
> card).  The network basically looks like this:
> 
> net --- dsl modem --- gateway --- hub --- laptop
> 
> Everything works just fine except transferring *from* the gateway *to* the
> laptop (~10kb/s).
> 
> Transfering *from* the laptop *to* the gateway (~130kb/s) is fine.
> Transfering from/to the gateway/laptop to/from the net maxes out at my DSL
> speed.
> 
> I know there used to be a problem with D-Link cards, but I am pretty sure
> that was fixed around 4.2 and I would think the problem would exist in
> both directions.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas why this is happening?  It doesn't matter the
> transfer method either (HTTP or FTP).
> 
> Any help appreciated...

Check if both your laptop's and your gateways NICs are properly set to
half duplex.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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