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March 8th, 2007 21:00

Replace Network ethernet card?

Hi
 
I have a 4600, about 4 years old and I have a problem with my network card. My ISP provides a 4 meg service but my card seems to restricting the download speed to around 2 instead of allowing the 4. I tried a USB connection and that allowed the 4 so it is definately the ethernet network card. I searched for drivers and tried to re install the original drivers but it will still not go above the 2 meg. I use a cable modem so did unplug the modem and restart the pc to effectively create a new connection and it picked it up ok. Could it be my card is just not functioning correctly? So I now think I need to just go and get a new ethernet network card install it and away I go, would anyone disagree with this as I cannot seem to get this card to go above 2. Any thoughts would be appreciated. :smileyhappy: Also is this a fairly simple piece to insert?
 
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Message Edited by mtops on 03-08-2007 05:27 PM
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    volcano11

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    Posted March 8th, 2007 22:00

    First try the following.  Open Device Manager, click the + sign next to network adapters, right click your ethernet network adapter and select properties.   Click ono the Advanced tab then find the setting for Speed & Duplex.  Try different settings to see if you can get the full speed out of the card.  If you can't, a relatively inexpensive troubleshooting step is to install a PCI ethernet adapter card (should cost less than $10) and see if that solves the problem. 
     
    Steve
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    Posted March 13th, 2007 16:00

    I'd also suggest the following:
     
    1) check out your CPU utilization while transfering.  I assume it's a base100 card and if it is, 4mbps really should be no problem at all.
     
    2) download and try a program called cablenut (it's free).  load the settings appropriate to your operating system and connection.  it's worked very well for me in the past for improving internet transfer speeds.

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