From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 16 20:36: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 758DF37B401 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:36:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C4C43FA3 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2003 20:36:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fozekizer@attbi.com) Received: from socrates (12-210-153-247.client.attbi.com[12.210.153.247]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with SMTP id <2003031704331405100rt49de>; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 04:33:14 +0000 Reply-To: From: "charles pelletier" Cc: Subject: RE: Too many collisions on network? Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:33:00 -0600 Message-ID: <000f01c2ec3e$4b3cabb0$05040101@socrates> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <02d101c2ec0c$0ddf0ec0$1502a8c0@blacktrap.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That's been my experience as well. Could be the type of hardware yer using. I've had my best luck with Netgear products. As far as ISPs..as a former tech supporter for flashnet (remember them?), i highly suggest speaking to upper level techs..lower level supporters are the kind that support basic connectivity issues and that's about all. > Dan Nelson wrote: > > Input errors probably means that whatever you're plugged into does not > > support full-duplex (i.e. it's a hub), which is why autoselect selected > > half-duplex. > > You know, now that he brings this up, I tend to agree. > It's possible that the hub you're plugging into is saturated: that will > result in high collision rates and poor performance. You won't get > anything better because that's the best the hub can do. > If I'm right on this guess, you need to take it up with your ISP, as it's > something they need to address. Ok I left this one in autoselect for now, and will contact my ISP tomorrow, and try and ask them to find solution for this high collision number problem... Thanks a lot everybody who answered :) Olivier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message