From BARRY MARTIN@454:3/105 to ALL on Thursday, December 09, 2010 18:10:00
Hi Folks!
Upgraded my DSL service from ~1.5 Mbps to ~7.0 Mbps. Tested it
yesterday -- was 5.9 Mbps -- not worried about that. The connection is definitely faster (yea!) but I'm still having problems with buffering (?)
when watching on-line videos ==> the screen and sometimes the sound
pauses (guess depends on resolution) and has the rotating circle thing. (Excess verbiage to make sure I'm using the right term.) It appears the problem is because of whatever is set at 614.4 Kbps. I've got three
icons at he lower right of the desktop:
"Local Area Connection at Actiontec PK5000" indicating 614.4 Kbps
"Local Area Connection" indicating 100.0 Mbps
"1394 Connection" indicating 400.0 Mbps
"1394" = Firewire so can ignore that one.
Had the same numbers with the old modem. I'm thinking it's something
in the Windows XP computer as watching a TV show feed (such as from
FOX.COM) via the Mythbuntu (Linux-based) computer is fine. Don't know
how to get that information from Linux other than the NIC speed (some 100
and others 1000 Mbps).
The other thing (!) is the XP computer has a gigabit NIC: on-line
specification sheet says it's an "integrated Marvell 888E1111 GigaLAN". Belarc Advisor lists an "nVidia nForce Networking Controller" but also "Network Drives: none detected". So, I'm thinking this critter should
connect at 1 Gbps when the cable is plugged into my 10/100/1000 switch,
right? Nope! No LED comes on to indicated the cable is plugged in to
that port, plus the XP pops up a message the network cable is unplugged!
This is not a new problem -- some time back when I upgraded to the Gigabit switch the XP refused to connect ==> had to plug the XP into a 10/100 switch (or maybe it was a hub) and that unit into the Gigabit switch!
Currently the only way for the XP to connect is to plug its Ethernet cable into the back of the (new) DSL Modem (has four Ethernet ports).
So, what's wrong? As the Linux equipment seems to operate correctly I'm thinking the problem is something with the XP, but don't know where to
go/how to go from there. Is the XP's NIC hardware faulty or just
configured wrong (software). With the old dial-up modems I know there
were init.strings and if they were misconfigured a high-speed modem
could get stuck at a super-slow transfer speed.
TIA!!
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