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Hello, folks.
About a week ago, I upgraded my home router to a NetGear WNR854T. My
primary reason for doing this is to support my various wired gigabit
capable machines, while still supporting my one wireless client.
Here are some of the machines that I have on this network.
1 - File Server running FreeBSD and Samba for Windows connectivity.
2 - Windows Vista based workstation.
3 - FreeBSD based workstation.
Now, all of these machines have gigabit ethernet NIC's installed, and are
properly configured hardware wise. Cables from each machine to the
router are all good quality CAT 6.
Here is where the problem begins; I'm seeing extremely poor tx and rx
rates from the Vista machine to all other machines. Here are examples:
1 - Vista <-> FreeBSD Server (Average of 8 MB/s to 12 MB/s transfers)
2 - FreeBSD <-> FreeBSD (Average of 50 MB/s to 60+ MB/s transfers)
That's a rather sizeable difference. I lose about 80+% of my network
performance when Vista is thrown into the loop.
I had then thought that perhaps the NIC in the Vista machine was
wonky, so I installed a small partition with FreeBSD on that machine.
I FTP'd a few ISO images around the network and once again saw
transfer rates exceeding 50+ MB/s, which confirmed that the NIC in the
Vista machine was working as intended.
I'm not sure if it's the NIC driver in Vista that is causing this, or
if it's something else I'm missing. Whatever the case may be, this
is unacceptable performance.
Has anyone else seen this with Vista? Could you perhaps offer
any suggestions that may help to remedy this?
Thank you for your time,
John.
About a week ago, I upgraded my home router to a NetGear WNR854T. My
primary reason for doing this is to support my various wired gigabit
capable machines, while still supporting my one wireless client.
Here are some of the machines that I have on this network.
1 - File Server running FreeBSD and Samba for Windows connectivity.
2 - Windows Vista based workstation.
3 - FreeBSD based workstation.
Now, all of these machines have gigabit ethernet NIC's installed, and are
properly configured hardware wise. Cables from each machine to the
router are all good quality CAT 6.
Here is where the problem begins; I'm seeing extremely poor tx and rx
rates from the Vista machine to all other machines. Here are examples:
1 - Vista <-> FreeBSD Server (Average of 8 MB/s to 12 MB/s transfers)
2 - FreeBSD <-> FreeBSD (Average of 50 MB/s to 60+ MB/s transfers)
That's a rather sizeable difference. I lose about 80+% of my network
performance when Vista is thrown into the loop.
I had then thought that perhaps the NIC in the Vista machine was
wonky, so I installed a small partition with FreeBSD on that machine.
I FTP'd a few ISO images around the network and once again saw
transfer rates exceeding 50+ MB/s, which confirmed that the NIC in the
Vista machine was working as intended.
I'm not sure if it's the NIC driver in Vista that is causing this, or
if it's something else I'm missing. Whatever the case may be, this
is unacceptable performance.
Has anyone else seen this with Vista? Could you perhaps offer
any suggestions that may help to remedy this?
Thank you for your time,
John.