very slow ethernet on 100mb network

[seven5]

i have just recently bought a quicksilver 733 g4. This is my first mac, and i got it in order to run osX. I basically pulled my pc from where it was and put the g4 in its place.

My problem is this, my linksys 8 port 100mb switch reports the g4 at 100mb and full duplex, but i only get about 2-2.5 megs a second on the local network, i have tried with samba, ftp and even http. (I'm running netJuke from my linux server ;)

i can't seem to figure out whats wrong with the network, this was happening with it OUT OF THE BOX,, i had made no tweaks to it, could the card be bad? is there something i haven't done? please, any help would be fantastic..thanks

ps: my normal transfer rate on my network is 9-10 megs/s

[dsauve]

I think I was having a similar problem last week. The second time I've experienced it. On my local network, I had reasonable ping times to my web server and email server, but when I tried to get an IMAP connection or SSH to any of the boxes, I would have very very long waits, if the connection ever went through at all. (FTP seemed to work, although I remember having poor FTP connections some months ago and perhaps that was related.) Everything else on my network checked out fine; I hadn't made any chages to the setup. Just one morning things got SLOW.

From what I can tell, it's either a Linksys-specific problem (I have the 4-port) related to MTU settings (did you upgrade the firmware?) and your ISP's MTU settings. See DSL Reports for a discussion:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,1700907~root=equip,16~mode=flat

Or, it has something to do with Network settings in OS 9 (Classic) because I had been running Classic at the time. This post makes me wonder:

http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=Forum6&Number=310638&page=&view=&sb=&o=

Perhaps running OS 9 at the same time causes weird MTU conflicts?

In any case, the wait-time problem seemed to go away after I restarted the machine that had been running OS 9.

damon

[seven5]

well i dont' think its os9, because i don't ever use classic. i got my mac cause of osx,and i don't plan on using software unless it runs in osx, i'm just that type of guy, heh, as for the firmware on my switch, i havnent' tried to upgrade that, i'll give it a try tonight...

but what i do know is that my pc using the same exact cat5 cable in the same exact spot got 9-10megs per second.... and so do my other pc's (linux OR windows)....

thanks for the help!!

[dsauve]

Funny thing is I'm having the same trouble again today. The one thing I didn't try that was suggested on the other boards was to use MTU of 1492 in the Linksys web interface. You'll need the last firmware upgrade to have that option.

ds

[seven5]

just to make it clear, this is a linksys SWITCH not a router, i think there might be some confusion.....

[dsauve]

Yes, sorry, my confusion.