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Speed of enet?
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Is there a GUI method to display the speed of your ethernet connection?
If so, where? (Thanks!)
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- iMac 3.2Ghz 1TB - MacBook Pro 15" Core i7 2.3Ghz / 256SSD (Work laptop)
- PowerMac G5 - Dual 2.0 Ghz, 3GB, Soundsticks!,
- Lenovo Thinkpad T510 (also a work laptop), Win 7 Enterprise, 8GB, 320GB HDD
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By "speed", what do you mean? Actual live throughput? The link speed? Something else?
The Network Utility program in /Applications/Utilities will show the link speed.
The Activity Monitor program in the same place can show live throughput. There are third-party apps that can put this in the menu bar, etc.
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Thanks! That's what I needed. Oddly I'm only getting a 100MBPS connection on my G5 when it's connected to a Gigabit hub. Hmm ....
I appreciate it. (I actually knew about that tool, but apparently I had a brain fade.)
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- PowerMac G5 - Dual 2.0 Ghz, 3GB, Soundsticks!,
- Lenovo Thinkpad T510 (also a work laptop), Win 7 Enterprise, 8GB, 320GB HDD
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Perhaps you have a bad cable, preventing all 4 wire pairs in the cable from functioning. 100Mbps (it's not MB/sec, it's Mb/sec) ethernet uses just two pairs, while gigabit uses all 4.
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Yeah ... knew about the naming ... I just have a (bad) habbit of typing that in all caps.
GOOD CALL! The cable wasn't pushed in all the way on the back of the G5. Once I did that it was instantly back up to 1 gig.
The other problem I had was with name resolution. I just rebuilt this machine today (first time actually!) Suddenly I was having slow name look ups on the Internet. For whatever reason this G5 doesn't like the DHCP DNS servers that are given to it by my D-Link router so I have to manually enter them. It was still a tad slow. So, I reversed them (secondary first, then primary) and bam ... fast as a Viper.
Thanks for the wiring tip. I wasn't looking at the simple.
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- PowerMac G5 - Dual 2.0 Ghz, 3GB, Soundsticks!,
- Lenovo Thinkpad T510 (also a work laptop), Win 7 Enterprise, 8GB, 320GB HDD
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