Hello all, I have a computer located in the University of Toronto network which shows some odd network behaviour. For one, I have run speedtest-cli on it numerous times at various times of the day, and it consistently returns around 93Mbit upload/download. For comparison, a laptop in the same LAN seems to get 700Mbit, while a computer in a different part of the UofT network gets 900Mb/570Mb. The NIC has a RealTek chip and uses the r8169 kernel module. Ethtool, which gives a live report, does list the card as running at 1Gb/s. But that sure isn't the speed I am getting. This same slow computer also has problems if I reboot it remotely: most of the time it doesn't come up, though dmesg has the card detected. If I start from a cold boot rather than restart, it comes up correctly most of the time. In either case just typing in #netctl start <ethernet> starts it up just fine. I was trying to solve this problem and saw that there are several complaints along just these lines having to do with the r8169 module. Some people suggested downgrading to r8101 but that module is even older. If the module isn't working well, that might account for the slower speeds. Is there any way to tell? Obviously I can buy another NIC with a different chipset but don't really want to go to the trouble if there is an easier way to diagnose the difficulties. All advice appreciated! Thanks. -- Peter King peter.king@utoronto.ca Department of Philosophy 170 St. George Street #521 The University of Toronto (416)-946-3170 ofc Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 CANADA http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ ========================================================================= GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42