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Oct 22, 2007, 09:04 AM
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Nforce3 Network problem.
I'm having a strange problem with my built-in nforce3 NIC.
On my second computer I get to use the full 14 Mbit downstream and 1 Mbit upstream that I have on my connection. (VIA Chipset on that one but using a PCI RTL8139) On this computer I only get about 6.5 Mbit downstream and 0.85 upstream on both windows installations. The reason I am sure it's a driver issue is that when I run Ubuntu 7.10 on the same computer using the same NIC I again get the full 14/1 Mbit. I can't find any newer driver from nvidia then the one I have installad and that came with the driver package on the motherboard CD. Does anyone have an clue as to what I can do? |
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Nov 3, 2007, 08:49 PM
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Noise? What noise?
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Try fiddling with the MTU's.
The new driver would be in the nForce 3 chipset driver package, not as a separate driver I think (same way on my NF2 board), so you might try that.
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Nov 21, 2007, 06:09 PM
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There's only one version of the NF3 chipset driver package avaliable, I've got the same on the motherboard cd as I can download from nvidia. So, no other driver avaliable than the one I have.
Tried to change MTU and some other settings but to no avail. I ended up robbing the other computer of the pci nic and use the builtin on that instead. Now I run with full speed on this comp as well. Cannot find the reason why the nf3 nic doesn't work properly. Sent a support question to nvidia but no answer. |
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Nov 29, 2007, 09:57 AM
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It's been a long time but I remember disabling the Offload Transmit TCP Checksum option in the network adapter settings improved things quite a bit. Might be worth a shot and you can enable it again if it doesn't help.
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Nov 29, 2007, 09:21 PM
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Sorry to hear
 I only remember that one setting because it would cause erratic transfers and crazy disconnects when gaming online. I know WoW definitely didn't play well with it.Edit- Make sure you restart when changing settings  |
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Dec 4, 2007, 11:24 PM
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my nforce2 has a 'utilize for cpu efficiency/thoroughput' option, & have it set to thoroughput of course
there's also an option to detect or force 100mbit fullduplex/half/someothers/etc is it into a router or modem?
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Dec 5, 2007, 01:49 PM
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I've tested all those settings without success. The only thing I managed to do was to get an even worse result changing them.
It's into a router but I don't see that it should make a difference when all other nic's perform perfectly and this one does in linux.... |
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