ASUS P4P800 On Board LAN adapter does not work at 100MBit

[Peter Diedrich]

With latest BIOS for the ASUS P4P800 motherboard and latest drivers
for its Intel Gigabit LAN adapter sometimes(!) I get _very_ low
bandwidth over the LAN (just a a few bytes per second).

If I pull the cable and reconnect, sometimes it is fine. Sometimes
not.

However I can get it stable to work when I select "Media Type" to
10MBit in the Win XP advanced LAN adapter settings.

Cables and network is all fine. Cross-checked with two other PCs.

Any clue what is going on here?

Peter.

 

[David H. Lipman]

Your cable MUST be Cat 5 to get 100Mb/s and the RJ45 connectors must be in good shape. In
short, replace the cable with a known good Cat 5 (or Cat 6) Ethernet cable.

In addition:
If you post to UseNet with your TRUE, not a munged, email address then you have invited the
swen Internet worm [aka; W32/Gibe-F] to visit you.

The Swen is news spelled backwards. The reason it is called this is because the Swen worm
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email addresses that it has harvested, it will then email itself to those addresses.

Dave



| With latest BIOS for the ASUS P4P800 motherboard and latest drivers
| for its Intel Gigabit LAN adapter sometimes(!) I get _very_ low
| bandwidth over the LAN (just a a few bytes per second).
|
| If I pull the cable and reconnect, sometimes it is fine. Sometimes
| not.
|
| However I can get it stable to work when I select "Media Type" to
| 10MBit in the Win XP advanced LAN adapter settings.
|
| Cables and network is all fine. Cross-checked with two other PCs.
|
| Any clue what is going on here?
|
| Peter.

 

[Norm]

Peter, didn't know if you were aware or not but there is an asus newsgroup:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus