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    From Endulini@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 2 16:54:09 2016
    Hi Folks,

    I recently installed a D-Link PCI DGE-528T 1Gb ethernet card on my rather
    old PC (Asus P5N-E SLI mobo) but it's only returning a max sped of 100Mbps. I've played around with various settings that looked relevant but it's made
    no difference and a laptop plugged in to the same line recently ran at
    1Gbps; can anyone suggest what settings I need to optimise to persuade it to run faster or am I (as I suspect) flogging a dead horse? Is this a
    limitation of the PCI technology on the board? The system still copes really well with everything I need so I'm loathe to change it......

    Cheers.

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  • From GlowingBlueMist@21:1/5 to Endulini on Sun Jan 3 03:10:36 2016
    On 1/2/2016 10:54 AM, Endulini wrote:
    Hi Folks,

    I recently installed a D-Link PCI DGE-528T 1Gb ethernet card on my
    rather old PC (Asus P5N-E SLI mobo) but it's only returning a max sped
    of 100Mbps. I've played around with various settings that looked
    relevant but it's made no difference and a laptop plugged in to the same
    line recently ran at 1Gbps; can anyone suggest what settings I need to optimise to persuade it to run faster or am I (as I suspect) flogging a
    dead horse? Is this a limitation of the PCI technology on the board? The system still copes really well with everything I need so I'm loathe to
    change it......

    Cheers.
    If the PC is reporting the LAN port of the card is running at 100 Mbps
    rather than 1 Gbps on a router port that supports 1 Gbps I'd consider
    trying a different cable.

    Too many times I've run into connectors on cards that just don't work
    properly with a specific cable but work just fine with other cable.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From endulini@21:1/5 to GlowingBlueMist on Sun Jan 3 14:45:18 2016
    On 1/3/2016 9:10 AM, GlowingBlueMist wrote:
    On 1/2/2016 10:54 AM, Endulini wrote:
    Hi Folks,

    I recently installed a D-Link PCI DGE-528T 1Gb ethernet card on my
    rather old PC (Asus P5N-E SLI mobo) but it's only returning a max sped
    of 100Mbps. I've played around with various settings that looked
    relevant but it's made no difference and a laptop plugged in to the same
    line recently ran at 1Gbps; can anyone suggest what settings I need to
    optimise to persuade it to run faster or am I (as I suspect) flogging a
    dead horse? Is this a limitation of the PCI technology on the board? The
    system still copes really well with everything I need so I'm loathe to
    change it......

    Cheers.
    If the PC is reporting the LAN port of the card is running at 100 Mbps
    rather than 1 Gbps on a router port that supports 1 Gbps I'd consider
    trying a different cable.

    Too many times I've run into connectors on cards that just don't work properly with a specific cable but work just fine with other cable.

    Cheers, a new cable sorted it :)

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Stephen@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 3 22:46:33 2016
    On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 14:45:18 +0000, endulini <endulini@orange.com>
    wrote:

    On 1/3/2016 9:10 AM, GlowingBlueMist wrote:
    On 1/2/2016 10:54 AM, Endulini wrote:
    Hi Folks,

    I recently installed a D-Link PCI DGE-528T 1Gb ethernet card on my
    rather old PC (Asus P5N-E SLI mobo) but it's only returning a max sped
    of 100Mbps. I've played around with various settings that looked
    relevant but it's made no difference and a laptop plugged in to the same >>> line recently ran at 1Gbps; can anyone suggest what settings I need to
    optimise to persuade it to run faster or am I (as I suspect) flogging a
    dead horse? Is this a limitation of the PCI technology on the board? The >>> system still copes really well with everything I need so I'm loathe to
    change it......

    Cheers.
    If the PC is reporting the LAN port of the card is running at 100 Mbps
    rather than 1 Gbps on a router port that supports 1 Gbps I'd consider
    trying a different cable.

    Too many times I've run into connectors on cards that just don't work
    properly with a specific cable but work just fine with other cable.

    Cheers, a new cable sorted it :)

    1Gbps requires all 4 pairs in the cable to be connected.

    100m only needed 2 and some 100M cables didnt include all 4 pairs.
    Stephen Hope stephen_hope@xyzworld.com
    Replace xyz with ntl to reply

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