Network question

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> BTW, manually altering the setting on the 100BaseT NICs does appear 
> to make a significant difference in performance, although Win2K does 
> appear to be doing the cybernetic equivalent of passing a kidney 
> stone when settings are being changed.

I have this laptop here with an Intel gigabit chipset onboard.  When I 
look at the speed/duplex configuration section of the driver 
configuration under Windows XP, the choices I am presented with are full 
auto, 10Mbps half, 10Mbps full, 100Mbps half, 100Mbps full and 1000Mbps 
auto.

How come there's no 1000Mbps half/full settings?  The performance 
problems I'm having are when I'm connecting to a gigabit network.  Will 
setting to 1000Mbps auto help?

Peace...  Sridhar