1000Mbps setting for network cards. . . Missing

[Czy Horse]

Hello
I cannot see a setting for the 1000Mbps Full or Half Duplex with either of
the Gigabit lan's in my conputer. Thought the problem may have been with the
motherboard on board lan so I installed another card. Both "auto config" both
say they are connected at 1 gig into the gigabit switch.
But when you go into Device manager, right click device. .properties. .
advanced tab. . .I cannot find the 1000Mbps listed any where under the Speed
and Duplex settings it just has the 10Mbps Full & Half and 100Mbps Full &
Half.
Transfer rates from computer to computer remain at 100Mbps speed (7-8
meg/sec) not at 1000Mbps (35-40 meg/sec I was getting with XP) as connection
lights are showing.


Any Ideas
Czy horse

 

[Michael Walraven]

Just so that you know it is not a inherent flaw in Vista, on my system there
is a selection for
'Link Speed & Duplex' of 1000 Mbbs Full Duplex (no half)

Vista Home premium (32 bit)
Dell XPS 410, on board Ethernet controller Intel® 82566DC Gigabit Network
Connection

I do not have a Gbit switch/router so cannot actually say that it works,
only that the option is presented.

During my system (re)build I did download a driver for this network
connection from the Dell site so it might be that the 'generic' Vista driver
doesn't know about Gbit (seems unlikely) but the normal advise to check for
updated drivers never hurts.

Michael

 

[Czy Horse]

Hmmm. .thanks for your reply
I have tryed updating both ethernet cards. .
I guess it is time to do the mother board bios. . .it is about the only
thing I have not "updated"

 

[Czy Horse]

Well I now I've updated Mother board bios as well and still have no 1000Mbps
option in the link & speed.
Changed lan cables
Both adaptors show I'm connected at 1 gig. .the little lights
In windows task manager it shows both adaptors at 1 Gbps
Still not getting the 1Gbps transfer speed I'm used to seeing

Basic System
Vista Home Premium
Asus P5N-E SLI -Mother Board
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512 -video card
Creative SB Audigy 2 -sound card
Intell Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.4 Ghz
4 gig Ram installed . . .3582 showing
Adaptor-Nvidia nForce driver version 65.7.4.0 on board
Adaptor-D-Link DHE-539T -spare adaptor for testing and trouble shooting

 

[Michael Walraven]

Note that there are a fair number of ops having trouble with lan speed. Some
have solved problems with various settings in Vista, some have solved
problems by updating or replacing the router. You might google for 'slow
lan' within the vista newsgroups Unfortunately that set of problems has
attracted a LOT of drek that you will have to wade through to get real
advise and solutions that have worked for other posters.

Michael

 

[DevilsPGD]

In message <[email protected]> "Michael Walraven"

Note that there are a fair number of ops having trouble with lan speed. Some
have solved problems with various settings in Vista, some have solved
problems by updating or replacing the router. You might google for 'slow
lan' within the vista newsgroups Unfortunately that set of problems has
attracted a LOT of drek that you will have to wade through to get real
advise and solutions that have worked for other posters.

The other issue is that, at least in some cases, there may not be
gigabit drives available.

I've got one motherboard that works great in gigabit mode under the OEM
provided drivers, but the generic drivers (in both XP and Vista) only
provide 10/100 support.

The OEM has not provided Vista capable drivers, so officially, 10/100
support is it for Vista.

On the plus side, due to it's age, this particular mobo had the gigabit
ethernet port sharing a PCI (not PCI-E) bus with the IDE controller, so
due to implementation, odds were very good you'd never actually peak
much over 140Mb/s anyway, so there wasn't much loss.

I've since replaced the mobo so I can't look up the chipset, but it was
an earlier Pentium 4 era motherboard.