[realtek] Slow transfer speed

[Christopher Fowler]

Tryo to make a cable that 568A on one enad and 568B on the other.  That 
should work nicely.

Chris

> On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Thomas Young wrote:
> 
> > To: realtek@scyld.com
> > 
> > I have a network of 2 computer both have Realtek RTL8139 network 
cards 
> > installed. These are connected directly by Cat5 cable. The problem 
is the 
> > network is really slow in one direction. Say a 1meg transfer would 
take 
> > 10sec from PC1 to PC2. It would take 10min from PC2 to PC1.
> 
> What driver version?
> What is the driver detection messages?
> Are you getting errors reported in /proc/net/dev?
> What does 'mii-diag' report?
> http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> 
> My guess is that you have a bad cable, likely mispaired in one 
direction.
> 
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