R8169 - Tried configuring for gigabit now even slower than before

[Error07]

This is a strange problem that I have read many people having:

I was getting full gigabit speeds when sending files TO my linux box, but when pulling them FROM the linux box my speeds capped out at ~16MB/s.

I tried a lot of things and none have worked and now I am in a worse situation having downloaded the drivers straight from realtek; now I can barely pull 6MB/s either way.

How do I rid the drivers from realtek and go back to whatever drivers linux used on its own when I first installed the card?

I have tried ethtool to set the gig speeds and even though it reads supported and advertised, when set to 1000 (ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg on) then doing /etc/init/d/networkin restart it still shows 100Mb/s with the ethtool eth0 command.


Any help is GREATLY appreciated, even if I cant solve the original problem id like to get back to at least having gig speeds one way!

Thanks.


edit: Now I dont know whats going on.. I have local network access but I am not getting anywhere outside the lan "no route to host".

[Error07]

now I got things all screwy, got my external net back by adding a nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf but now ping is like 15ms to google and I cant get a speed test reading over 5mb on the computer!

I removed all the routes except the one I set in resolv.conf so it shows:

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.2.10 0.0.0.0 UG 100 0 0 eth0

but when I do networking restart I get:

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.2.10 0.0.0.0 UG 100 0 0 eth0

and still have a really high ping.... whats going on here???

[Error07]

Okay everything is back to normal as far as my lan/wan connections and ping, only problem left is getting my gig speeds back.

No matter what when I set them via ethtool they go back to what they were previously. I read this was a bug in an older kernal but was supposed to have been resolved yet here I am having the problem.

Guessing nobody has the answer maybe I will just try a new gigabit card and do some research on its linux compatibility first.

[ian dobson]

Hi,

The R8169 is known to be a slow network card (even under windows). I have one in my HTPC and in the end I just installed a Intel network card and disable the onboard card.

Regards
Ian Dobson

[Error07]

I dont mind it being slow - I just want it to get back to the speeds I was getting. As for now its stuck in 100mb mode, at least before I was getting 35MB to the computer and 16MB from it.