Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Network Query

On 12/07/11 06:01, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:36:54 +0100, linux@??? said:
>
>> Everything is 100Mb/s apart from the powerline.
>
> Full duplex or half? How have you ascertained the connection speed?
>
>> The problem is that when
>> I copy from A to B (at about 1.7 MB/s over the powerline) the connection
>> from A to C slows to a crawl.
>
> Why do you think the network is the bottleneck? Depending on what, and
> how, you are copying, you could have a CPU or disk i/o bottleneck.

I don't know whether it's full or half. How can I find that out? Will
ifconfig tell me it if I throw it the right params?

I think the network is the bottleneck because if I plug B into switch 1
directly (i.e. without powerline), everything's fine.

Leo