50% performance hit on overall throughput.
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I've seen in recent years were CAT5e or 6 cables that had an issue of some sort that prevented gigabit negotiations
We had to wire a whole section of a data room over because the installers used zip-ties and jacked up the cables clear to the wire tray entries.
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Yeah no ya'll make perfect sense. cabling is that one thing that is just there.. never really think about it unless I'm having to make a new patch cord. I still have a few dozen feet of Cat6 on the spool.. I'll make new and replace my wan, lan and wap cables with cat6 and see what happens.
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If the connection is forced to 1Gbps FD but the cable is not up to it, for whatever reason, would you not expect to see errors on the interface? Does the bge driver have sysctl stats like Intel does? (I don't have one here to check). Edit: Yes is does on dev.bge
I would expect to see some evidence of a problem other than just a seemingly slow throughput from a bad cable. Interesting reading this thread though, a useful diagnostic exercise. ;)
Steve
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Swapped out cables at lunch.. if I specify auto negotiate the port flaps. If I reset to 1gig/FD I have to restart the modem and Pf before they link up.
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Try a switch between the modem and pfsense.
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i could add a switch.. and I might have to try it. But I don't relish the idea of leaving yet another electricity consuming device in there for something as trivial as that.. when hard setting the speed/duplex works too.
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Oh, I misunderstood. If it's all working to your satisfaction, then yeah don't try adding a switch. I thought you were still unhappy with the performance.
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nah the new cabling alleviated that. I'm rocking out with my **** out now!.
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REVO South Africa dude???
nah the new cabling alleviated that. I'm rocking out with my **** out now!.
