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Date:      Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:34:12 -0500
From:      "David Polak" <me@davidpolak.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0	adapter
Message-ID:  <000601c90b8f$c8a18ff0$59e4afd0$@com>
In-Reply-To: <20080831181932.Q19288@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <000001c90b7b$af814f60$0e83ee20$@com> <20080831181932.Q19288@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar
> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 11:21 AM
> To: David Polak
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0
> adapter
> 
> > still seeing really slow download speeds. I then decided to see if
> something
> > was wrong with the system by downloading the same image from the same
> source
> > that I downloaded on linux in order to bootstrap freebsd and the
> speed
> > difference was appaling. It had downloaded at 10.29 MB/s. Once
> freebsd was
> > installed, It will only go at 60KB/s..
> >
> >
> 
> looks like problems with speed/duplex autoconfiguration with the
> switch,
> or bad support for PHY in FreeBSD.
> 
> what you describe is quite common case when one side gets configured
> for
> full duplex, other for half duplex.
> 
> as it works for linux, maybe PHY support in FreeBSD is buggy.
> 
> try setting up speed and duplex options manually

I have set the duplex to full-duplex and it has increased the speed to about
200kb/s on the same file.

As far as phy support, I guess I really don't know, but the drivers for the
chipset have been around for a while. 




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