Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-02-01 Thread Peter Volkov (pva)
On Пнд, 2006-01-30 at 20:52 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: Transfer 39Mb file from gentoo - XP share using Konqueror trans time =25 seconds [XP share mounted smb using Linneibourhood] Transfer 39Mb file from gentoo - XP share using winXP copy trans time =5 mins [gentoo smb directory to XP

[gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-30 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi I have a home LAN with a mix of dual boot, XP and Gentoo[-- mine]. Now the basic problem is this :- Transfer of file [eg. 200Mb] Dual boot on XP-- XP speed approx 50Mbps Dual boot on linux-- XP speed = 1Mbps Now this applies regardless of transport ie. I have tried smb FTP NFS, I

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-30 Thread jarry
Dual boot on XP-- XP speed approx 50Mbps Dual boot on linux-- XP speed = 1Mbps I have read somewhere that this might be caused by slightly different mru/mtu settings between your linux and XP computers. If you had that second comp dual-bootable, I bet you would not get 1Mbps between

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-30 Thread William Kenworthy
How are you measuring this? My first suspicion is that you are measuring on your machine and trying to compare the figures from different tools running on different OS's. You also dont say what type of network this is over - 10/100/1000 ?? Also what hardware and drivers? BillK On Mon,

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-30 Thread Stuart Howard
I agree in that I am using whichever tool is available to measure the speed eg. konqueror file transfer dialog or bmon to monitor rate however I am not talking optmisations here where the same tool would be necessary eg. win to lin 39Mb file 6 minites win to win 39Mb file 20 seconds all on same

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-30 Thread Stuart Howard
OK well I give up Situation :- Transfer 39Mb file from gentoo - XP share using Konqueror trans time =25 seconds [XP share mounted smb using Linneibourhood] Transfer 39Mb file from gentoo - XP share using winXP copy trans time =5 mins [gentoo smb directory to XP share dir ie. XP shared dir Not

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-30 Thread Steven Susbauer
I've had similar problems quite a bit. After a while I just installed pure-ftpd on Gentoo and used smart ftp on Windows. It still took a long time but seemed to go much faster than that smb stuff. On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Stuart Howard wrote: OK well I give up Situation :- Transfer 39Mb file