Okay... I have @home service. My connection consists of a 50ft CAT5 straight
cable connecting my LinkSys LNE100TX to a cable modem which I share with
another member of the house. Reason it's 50 ft away is that the inline for
@home was too difficult to move and the CAT5 is easier to work with inside the
walls. The reason they aren't networked has nothing to do with my problem.
My setup ran fine for a good while until the last two weeks I have been having
trouble with http and pop3 addresses. I went through the re-config and
re-install craze and still the same results. I understand Ethernet cable needs
to be <300ft(100m) but I'm at 1/6th the limit here. The win machine that shares
the modem with me has no problems with the pop mail nor the http addy's. It's
as if the connection degrades. So I check ifconfig and see tx errors where I
have seen few before. I use "dhcpcd -h cxxxxxxx-a" to config eth0(LS LNE100TX)
by dhcp....fine. But my mail has been timing out everytime, my http access is
crippled to the point where sites load and then the speed diminishes as it
loads...it's getting to look a lot like Black Hole Theory(don't ask for an
explanation :)) and the page never finishes...I get "Document contains no data"
errors when I try www.google.com and we all know the front page to google is
about as bulky as one grain of sand to a beach. I have checked the netcable for
continuity with my multitester and got true and equivalent readings for each
set...is it possible that the length of this cable is the problem here? I did
have the machines networked once and ran the cable to this machine via a hub...
once again...cable-->cable modem-->50ft CAT5 cable-->LinkSys-->eth0/tulip
If it works on the winmachine, it's not likely @home's prob...I just can't
determine if it is the cable length or something is amiss in a config
somewhere. I hate to have to move this machine around.
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