Help With Network Connection

[Megashrap]

Ok, on the last mainboard I had I was able to get 400Mbps. speed.Something to do with the 1394 thing?Anyway i'm trying to get that speed again,I currently have only 100 Mbps. I just cannot remember what exactly I did before to get it except that I know I bridged a few connections I had together to get it but I cannot figure out how I did that now. any help would be great. Thanks Scar.

[gryphon]

from which two locations are you trying to copy data ?

[Megashrap]

well before I had 2 or 3 connections in network in cntrl panel, then I bridged2 or them and it gave me 400 Mbps speed.

could it be the firewire doing it before? I just can't get it to what it was before is all. I want my 400 back dammit. :'( :'(

[Andrew]

I'm not sure about what you are doing (I suck at hardware).

But from what I've read firewire is faster than usb. Although I'm not sure what you are doing and whether this is relevant. :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire#Comparison_to_USB

[gryphon]

FireWire and USB2 bot can have 400, with Firewire 800 being double of the original FireWire speed. I doubt you have that though.

Then again, my question. From which location do you transfer data with 400mbps. If you bridged your internet connection and a FireWire port you never are gonna get 400mbps from the Internet.

Plain and simple, from where do you want to transfer data with that speed ?

[Megashrap]

All I can say is before I upgraded recently, in my network conn. I had a speed of 400 Mbps.constant. and now it is only 100Mbps.But I can live with 100 although the 400 was awesome and I would like to have it again.

With my other motherboard setup when I just used the onboard LAN I could go into device manager and under networkcards there were 2 showing one was a nic card and the other said 1394. THose 2 I bridged in net. conn's.which in turn somewhow gave me 400mbps. speed.Bu8t that was an Nforce 4 board and the AM2 board I have now is a Nforce 520.

Should I use a Nic card rather than the onboard LAN maybe?

[gryphon]

you have previously bridged your FireWire connector with your network card. Although it might have said 400Mbps you still only had the 100mb speed of your ethernet adapter. Even more so because no one has a home connection of 400mbps to the Internet. :)

[Megashrap]

But doesen't gigabit Lan run around 480 mbps?

[gryphon]

You won't get that transfer rate as a contstand speed. Next to that I just asked you 3 times from which location you are transferring data with that speed. Again I doubt it's from another computer in your home, so it has to be the Internet. Making 400mbps almost impossible at this time.

Network connections do not have contstand transfer speeds. And certainly not anywhere near 400mbps unless you have the main bit torrent server in your dorm room.

[Megashrap]

Next to that I just asked you 3 times from which location you are transferring data with that speed.

That speed was in my network connections where you click on properties and see the current speed and other options i.e, packets sent recieved etc.

[gryphon]

which is always a constant speed. And it indicates the speed of the connection. Not the real transfer rate at that moment. If you like to see the current load on the adapter use ctr-alt-delete and check the network properties tab.

[Megashrap]

Will do, Thanks.