Slow ethernet performance on Inspiron 5000

I have an Inspiron 5000 (500 MHz). At 100 MBs full duplex, one would
expect more than the ~1 Mbyte/s data transfer rate I am getting. I am
using the cardbus slot, with a Linksys PCMPC100 10/100 adapter.

Does anyone have any data on what I should expect as far as max data
transfer rate. I would think I could get close to t half the wire rate
(~ 5 MB/sec).

Copying from what? The performance is related to the entire connection.

Are you sure you're running 100 and not 10?
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>I have an Inspiron 5000 (500 MHz). At 100 MBs full duplex, one would
> expect more than the ~1 Mbyte/s data transfer rate I am getting. I am
> using the cardbus slot, with a Linksys PCMPC100 10/100 adapter.
>
> Does anyone have any data on what I should expect as far as max data
> transfer rate. I would think I could get close to t half the wire rate
> (~ 5 MB/sec).
>

On Apr 23, 9:38 pm, goo...@toddandjoanna.com wrote:
> I have an Inspiron 5000 (500 MHz). At 100 MBs full duplex, one would
> expect more than the ~1 Mbyte/s data transfer rate I am getting. I am
> using the cardbus slot, with a Linksys PCMPC100 10/100 adapter.
>
> Does anyone have any data on what I should expect as far as max data
> transfer rate. I would think I could get close to t half the wire rate
> (~ 5 MB/sec).

Do you mean connection to the internet is 1MB/sec, or is it the
connection to the LAN that is slow?

If it's the internet.... I'm afraid you will likely have to live with
that. 1mb/s isn't bad.

> Do you mean connection to the internet is 1MB/sec, or is it the
> connection to the LAN that isslow?

It is the LAN connection. Copying files, FTP, etc. 1 M byte/s. It is
not horrible, but it is slower than one would expect at 100 MBs full
duplex. Yes, I am connected at 100 MBS.


> If it's the internet.... I'm afraid you will likely have to live with
> that. 1mb/s isn't bad.

It is 1 M byte/s (MB/s). I can achieve 5-6 on my other PC, which is an
AMD Duron 750 MHz.