From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 31 17:34:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B701065682 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:34:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from me@davidpolak.com) Received: from smtpauth03.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpauth03.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54C748FC20 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:34:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from me@davidpolak.com) Received: (qmail 12469 invoked from network); 31 Aug 2008 17:34:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (24.252.31.225) by smtpauth03.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.183) with ESMTP; 31 Aug 2008 17:34:29 -0000 From: "David Polak" To: References: <000001c90b7b$af814f60$0e83ee20$@com> <20080831181932.Q19288@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080831181932.Q19288@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:34:12 -0500 Message-ID: <000601c90b8f$c8a18ff0$59e4afd0$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AckLha7rIiirDbBCSMqKZOK6YliNOAAAlYKA Content-Language: en-us Subject: RE: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0 adapter X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:34:30 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar > Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 11:21 AM > To: David Polak > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0 > adapter > > > still seeing really slow download speeds. I then decided to see if > something > > was wrong with the system by downloading the same image from the same > source > > that I downloaded on linux in order to bootstrap freebsd and the > speed > > difference was appaling. It had downloaded at 10.29 MB/s. Once > freebsd was > > installed, It will only go at 60KB/s.. > > > > > > looks like problems with speed/duplex autoconfiguration with the > switch, > or bad support for PHY in FreeBSD. > > what you describe is quite common case when one side gets configured > for > full duplex, other for half duplex. > > as it works for linux, maybe PHY support in FreeBSD is buggy. > > try setting up speed and duplex options manually I have set the duplex to full-duplex and it has increased the speed to about 200kb/s on the same file. As far as phy support, I guess I really don't know, but the drivers for the chipset have been around for a while.