I have a customer who just bought a new PC. They asked me to set it up to access my fixed wireless service for them. OK, should be straight forward.. but when I set it up, the speed is very inconsistent. Pages sometimes take a while to load. It was strange because ping times were all excelent.
Anyway, I tracked it down to the NIC. It was set to Auto, but when I set it to 10Mbit half duplex, the problems went away.
So what is the ideal setting if you have to set this manually, when it's plugged directly into a smartBridge unit? I know the smartbridges have a 10 Mbit ethernet port, but is it half duplex or full duplex?
It is full duplex.
I have, however, experienced the same as you - for some reason full duplex doesn't always work properly (packets just disappear in the upstream direction, with no indication of lost packets in the interface counters on the ethernet or wireless side), and if you set the NIC to half duplex the problems go away.
Is the NIC in this customer's PC a Realtek 8139, by the way?
-- LarsG
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