> > Try disabling usb and firewire in BIOS. You may need to have
> > a tech there do it for you. Your box has the sk NIC and usb
> > sharing an irq. The NIC driver is MPSAFE but the usb stack is
> > still under the GIANT lock. Disable usb and the NIC driver
> > should perform better.
>
> Alternati
> Try disabling usb and firewire in BIOS. You may need to have
> a tech there do it for you. Your box has the sk NIC and usb
> sharing an irq. The NIC driver is MPSAFE but the usb stack is
> still under the GIANT lock. Disable usb and the NIC driver
> should perform better.
Alternatively, to avoid
David Polak wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> try setting up speed and duplex options manually
>
> I have set the duplex to full-duplex and it has increased the speed to
> about 200kb/s on the same file.
>
> As far as phy support, I guess I really don't know, but the drivers for
> the chipset have been aroun
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar
> Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 11:21 AM
> To: David Polak
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible
still seeing really slow download speeds. I then decided to see if something
was wrong with the system by downloading the same image from the same source
that I downloaded on linux in order to bootstrap freebsd and the speed
difference was appaling. It had downloaded at 10.29 MB/s. Once freebsd wa
