[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:40, Tom Patton wrote: > >> On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 23:36 -0600, M Harris wrote: >> >>> I would recommend the Skylink 8 Port switch... relatively inexpensive, >>> and very fast (does 10/100,. and keeps track of 100 or 10 separately) for >>> the money for a wired network. >>> >> I'd suggest buying a gigabit switch to cover future upgrades. My 2-yr >> old Asus MB interface is gig, and a gig card in the kids computer was >> very inexpensive...and blazing fast! I have the 5-port Linksys EG005W, >> and it handles /10 (HP Laserjet printer) /100 (2 laptops) &/1000 (2 >> pc's) flawlessly. But definately toss the hub! >> Tom >> > > Thanks for the suggestion, there is no question that the hardware will be > changed. But I am curious why only my suse operation gets hit. Even the > vmware virtual network card vmnet1, which is mapped to eth0 manages to pull > and push its packets cleanly thru eth0! I think i will install a linux > virtual machine before i switch, just curious if the packets see the > difference!!! > One thought is that Windows doesn't back off properly after collisions or otherwise behave nice. It wouldn't be the first time MS has violated spec.
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