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Date:      Fri, 3 May 2002 17:29:24 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        "E. J. Cerejo" <ecerejo@zapo.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Transfer speed
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205031728030.71492-100000@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <200205031847.01274.ecerejo@zapo.net>

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On Fri, 3 May 2002, E. J. Cerejo wrote:

> I have a box running FreeBSD and win2K and a laptop running win2k,
> when I have both of these machines connected to each other and if
> both are running win2k I can transfer files between them very fast
> for example 20 meg file will take seconds to transfer but I'm
> running FreeBSD and connect the laptop it will take forever to
> transfer a 20 meg file and I can see in gkrellm that it's only
> transfering at a rate of (more or less) 40 Kbs.  Does anyone have
> any idea why it is so slow?  Thanks

Guessing: Ethernet autonegotiation.  Explicitly set everything to 100M.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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