gig network

Mr-White · 18 Nov 2011 at 11:21

Shuttle SG31G2 with Win7 Pro 64-bit
Linksys Cisco SE2500 switch
Western Digital Sharespace
Using cat5e

I'm trying to get a gig connection from my Shuttle to my NAS. The Shuttle is only showing the network speed as 100mb. I've updated the NIC driver directly from Marvells website but it won't auto detect the speed, i've tried forcing 1000mb from the NIC options in device manager but it drops the network connection. Any ideas ?

MW

Mr-White · 19 Nov 2011 at 13:39

jimjamuk said:
Cat5e is fine - set everything to Auto negotiate.

This is what it's already set to. I might try cat6 as it's only a few quid for a short cable.

MW

Mr-White · 26 Dec 2011 at 16:23

I tried cat6 and it detected it as a 1000mb network

MW

Mr-White · 14 Jan 2012 at 12:34

The prob I have now is it's only transferring at 11-12mbps

MW

Mr-White · 14 Jan 2012 at 23:23

khrall said:
That's still running as an 100Mb network then,

100 Mbs = 12.5 MBs (divide bits by 8 to get bytes)

When it was running at 100mb i was getting around 8mbps, since I changed to cat6 and being detected as 1gig it's now transferring at 11-12mbps. However I just upgraded my computer and now it's transferring at 21-22mbps.

MW

Mr-White · 15 Jan 2012 at 08:57

arobertson676 said:
As suggested, trying a different cable (or a bunch of other cables) might solve the problem. Some cables don't seem to like 1Gb for some reason.

Even cat6 ?

MW

Mr-White · 15 Jan 2012 at 09:12

I only bought 2 cat6 cables, 1 from NAS to switch and 1 from switch to computer

What sort of speeds should I be seeing ?

MW

Mr-White · 15 Jan 2012 at 20:18

Just got speeds of 34mbps transferring an iso image from the NAS

MW