19 Oct
2006
19 Oct
'06
6:43 p.m.
On Thursday 19 October 2006 17:25, Mark Kent wrote:
Hi,
Locking it to 10/full was what the MCI technician recommended after I opened a
ticket because the line was dropping to 500Kbs up/down. This was a 4Mbit
up/down line burstable to 10. They said it was not possible to increase the
capacity of this line, so I guess they are using their old 10Mbit equipment
for this. Since locking it like they asked speed has been fine, and the cable
is a 2 meter factory made one plugging into the datacenter patch-panel, so I
don't think that's a problem...
Thanks for the tips though.
Richard
I had to
lock-down the network card to 10mbit full-duplex. It was
autoselecting 100mbit half-duplex.
Hope that helps someone... sometime...
Autoselecting 100/half probably means that the link auto-negotiation
failed, as that is the default. It might fail because the other side was
nailed down, perhaps to 10/full. That seems like an unlikely choice... but
one reason why it might be nailed at 10mbits is because someone before you
couldn't get it to run well at 100mbits and discovered that setting it to
10 was a "solution." If that was the case, I'ld guess that the cable
between the switch and the server is lengthy and that it was not tied down
in the prescribed order (wO, O, wG, Bl, wBl, G, wBr, Br) [or swap O and G].