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Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 17:38:17 +1100
To: "Martin Vana" <martin.vana@vslib.cz>,
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From: Robert Moss <rmoss@bigpond.net.au>
Subject: Re: inet speed problem in 4.4
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The problem is the Realtek cards, they are cheap, dodgy cards.

To even use them, you have to set them to the desired speed (100/full, 
100/half etc..)  never ever ever ever use Autodetect speed, as the card 
will freak out and slow to a crawl

rob.

At 12:02 AM 2/11/2001 +0100, Martin Vana wrote:
>hi,
>I've problem with inet connection speed. Sometimes (mostimes)
>lost too many packets are lost (abouve 50%) that it slows
>inet so. The host I was trying it on is on our LAN.
>Nothing like this happens in 4.3 release.
>Anyone has same experience?
>info: I386, 4.4 stable, AMDK6-2, MVP, PLANET 83xx based
>ethernet card(mii+rl0),
>Martin
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