network speed

[ralph-hogaboom]

hi all;

i'm in the process of converting my home network from windows 2000 to red hat 7.3. i'm doing the same basic workstation install on all of them, but each computer is different, including a different nic.

the problem is that the shared internet connection speed is drastically slower.

i have a 1.5 megabit cable modem connection, and the bandwidth tests are now showing me at 168 KBps - far slower than when i was using windows.

my guess is that it's a bad eth0 driver, or an improperly configured service on one or more machines that's slowing the whole thing down.

i read an earlier thread that said to use /sbin/ifconfig; here's my output. note the number of collisions that have occured.

<output of /sbin/ifconfig>

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:5F:3E:AF:4E
inet addr:192.168.0.148 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2764 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
TX packets:740 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:4 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:372105 (363.3 Kb) TX bytes:215178 (210.1 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:846 (846.0 b) TX bytes:846 (846.0 b)

</output of /sbin/ifconfig>

i'd love it if someone could point me to a HOWTO on troubleshooting network problems.

ralph hogaboom

[ralph-hogaboom]

sorry - editing error. collision number should read 576.