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MilkmanDan · Jul 30, 2003, 01:33 AM

I just put an Asante PCI Ethernet card in my beige G3, running OS 10.2.5. It runs fine with the drivers found on the asante webpage. But heres the rundown on whats happening.

When I plug my G4 into my beige (directly), all is fine.

When I plug in both to my Linksys 10/100 Switch, all is fine.

When I plug my Cable modem into the uplink of the switch, my file transfer speeds between the two computers drop to under 10 kps. This is odd, because the Switch sees the card as being a 10/100 card, and the card's lights show it as being a 10/100 card. Sometimes the file speeds go up (somewhat, but no where near to what they are on a direct connection) when I move files from my G4 ot the beige (either via the G4 or by accessing the G4 from the beige), but moving files off the Beige goes to the horrible speed.

I tried different ethernet cabels, so the cables are not the issue.

Here is a link to the card model.

http://www.asante.com/products/adapters/696/index.html

Assante was recommended on an older thread I had started about beige G3s upgrades, and no one had reported this problem. Here is a link to that thread.

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=167099

All the experts I know can't make heads nor tails of this weird problem. Why is my cable Modem causeing this problem?

aaanorton · Jul 30, 2003, 10:21 AM

Plug it all in and check the IP addresses of each machine. They are probably on different subnets. This will cause your file transfers to go across the internet, instead of across your LAN.
The problem is your switch. You need a router instead. This is what routers are for. They provide NAT and DHCP serving. Just replace the switch with a cheap, multi port router.

MilkmanDan · Jul 30, 2003, 05:45 PM

Man, you are so correct. Man, I can't believe I missed that one. Well, problem solved. Thanks a giffy.

(Damn my bad cable modem)

aaanorton · Jul 31, 2003, 09:54 AM

Originally posted by MilkmanDan:
Man, you are so correct. Man, I can't believe I missed that one. Well, problem solved. Thanks a giffy.

(Damn my bad cable modem)

Cool. I'm glad you got it all sorted out, but there's no problem with your modem. In fact, this is exactly the way this was designed to work.