gigabit ethernet: does it always suck?

[Ronnie Gauthier]

Might be your cables. Try cat6/350Mhz cables.

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:10:33 -0700
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> I've been playing with gigabit ethernet a bit at work lately, and I've 
> found it to be incredibly inreliable.  Sometimes I'll get 800-900Mb/s, 
> and then other times i'm lucky if I hit 300Mb/s.  This is all on a test 
> network with a fairly beefy Gb switch.
> 
> Even worse, is that sometimes I can't even get the NICs to autonegotiate 
> to 1000Mb/s.
> 
> Someone please tell me that this is not normal?
> 
> I should note that if I fall back to 10/100 then all is good.
> 
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