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Originally Posted by jaycee
Collisions would not slow the speed to sub 2mbit.
You may want to try forcing 100mbit mode, according to a freind who knows quite alot about network gear, sometimes it is just autonegotiation that goes wrong and if you force both to 100mbit, it works great. Try it, it can only not work  |
I have had a incorrectly negotiated ethernet - modem connection reduce upload to under 50% speed and down made erratic between 40% and 100% speed, this is on 2mbit with a ambit120 modem. It can be repeated time and time again if I deliberatly use bad negotiation.
Likewise on a basic lan setup if you use poor negotiation, collisions arent a thing that only affect it on high utilisation it will just run poor full stop, latency jumps every few seconds and poor upload speeds.
Your advice is right to force both to the same setting, that I agree with.