yes it has a built in switch [Linksys WAG54G] 
and unfortunaltly 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] stuart # mii-diag   
Using the default interface 'eth0'.
SIOCGMIIPHY on eth0 failed: Operation not supported

^^ prehaps this is relavent ?

also
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:4C:A2:28:FF  
          inet addr:192.168.1.101  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:146477 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:149586 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:100725067 (96.0 Mb)  TX bytes:70854966 (67.5 Mb)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb000 




On 5/28/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 May 2005, Stuart Howard wrote:
> 
> > I have a small LAN at home with 2 winXP and 1 Gentoo [genstu] machines
> > connected through a combined ADSLrouter etc.
> > I have a problem whereby, I seem to have very slow data transfer
> > speeds between my Gentoo machine and my XP machines as a guide here
> > are some figures
> >
> > Transfer of a 66Mb file :-
> > XP->gen 90 secs 700KB/s
> > gen->XP 30 secs 2700KB/s
> > XP->XP   7 secs ?KB/s
> >
> > The share on genstu is samba and I have also tried Winscp which gives
> > a little improvement in performance but not much.
> > The hardware is all relatively new and the NIC's were cheap and
> > cheerful but 10/100.
> 
> Does the ADSL router have a built-in switch or are you using an external
> one? Or a hub? Do you know at what speed the cards auto-negotiate with
> your switch? (I use mii-diag to check that).
> 
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