Network question

[Doc Shipley]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 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?

   The biggest blessing of gigabit ethernet isn't 1000bps, it's a decent 
auto-negotiation standard.  auto/auto is a hell of a lot more reliable 
between gigabit devices than 10/100 or 10Mbit, so your situation is a 
little odd.

   It sounds like XP has your adapter forced to something Not Right. 
I'd check the MTU first, make sure you're not on a jumbo-packet network 
or pushing jumbos on a 1500MTU net, then I'd try 1000Mbps/auto and see. 
  Not like you're going to cook anything.  :)


	Doc