Santilli
Hairy Aussie
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Taking the advice of a few folks here, I bought an Intel Pro gigabyte card, connected that to the Beast, Gigabyte only ports, with a Crossover Cat 6 cable, and was getting 10 mb/sec throughput on data transfers????
First I tried a straight cat5 cable. Same result.
Connected the Cat6 crossover back in, same result.
Don't ask me why, but I figured what the heck, I swapped the two cables, the cat 5 that goes to the router, and the cat 6 that goes to the server, switching ports on the Beast.
I had to reasign IP addresses, switching the two.
VOILA! Consistent 25-90 MB/sec data transfer between the computers.
Why?
First I tried a straight cat5 cable. Same result.
Connected the Cat6 crossover back in, same result.
Don't ask me why, but I figured what the heck, I swapped the two cables, the cat 5 that goes to the router, and the cat 6 that goes to the server, switching ports on the Beast.
I had to reasign IP addresses, switching the two.
VOILA! Consistent 25-90 MB/sec data transfer between the computers.
Why?