[mythtv-users] Ethernet troubles.

clemens at dwf.com clemens at dwf.com
Sun Apr 26 01:06:27 UTC 2009


I have a MythTV server in my office (at home), and have just moved
the Mythtv-frontend into my living room with my new TV.

Im having all sorts of ethernet problems, and would be interested to
hear from anyone who has had similar problems, or has an obvious solution.

First, all the cables mentioned are Cat 6.
When connected with one 6' cable (both machines in the office) I see 1000Mbps
transfer speeds.

    Of Topic: is there ANY WAY to tell a what speed an ethernet is running
              at?  /sbin/ifconfig doesnt seem to return this info, and the
	      only place I see a speed is in the messages file when the 
	      connection is first made.

With a 2nd 6' cable bought at the same time from the same manufacturer,
I only get 10/100Mbps.

with a 3' cable and the good 6' cable and a Linksys 10/100/1000Mbps router
I just see constandt 1000Mbps up, 1000Mbps down messages, a ping never
gets thru.

With the 75' cable between the office and the Living room I get a solid
100Mbps, but have never seen 1000Mbps.  I get nothing when I try to add
the Linksys router to split the ethernet between 3 devices at the far end.

I have to assume that some of the rest of you have seen similar problems,
so whats going on?  Would better ethernet cards (one end is on a Intel 
motherboard, I other end is a D-Link ethernet card) help?

I will assume that 100Mbps is probably enough, but would like the extra
bandwidth just to make sure.

And the fact that Im having NO LUCK with the LinkSys router (sd2005)
makes me feel that something is really wrong.

Mumph.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. 

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                                        Reg.Clemens
                                        reg at dwf.com




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