port-macppc: Re: getting better throughput from mc0 ethernet interface (fwd)

Subject: Re: getting better throughput from mc0 ethernet interface (fwd)
To: None <russell_mcmanus@yahoo.com>
From: John D Smerdon <jds@smerdon.livonia.mi.us>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/01/2002 17:34:36

At 05:20 PM 9/1/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>I've got 1.5.2 installed on a powermac 7300.  Most things are working
>beautifully, but I seem to be getting very slow downloads.  I suspect
>that the problem is that the mc0 interface is simplex.

I have a 7300/200 also running 1.5.2.

My mc0 interface is connected to a 100Mb/full ethernet switch but it 
negotiated 10Mb/half.

I get ftp file transfers of 870 - 930 KB on the ethernet network, which is 
within 70 or 80% of the 10Mb ethernet limit.

Have you tried ftp instead of wget?