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Annoahim

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Registered: 2012-02-16

Posts: 4

Hardware or Arch? (slow internet during installation)

Problem: Slow internet when installing Arch (net-install).
Recently replaced the hardware on the newer. Motherboard Gigabyte P67-D3-B3.
Internet PPPoE, distributed through a router, DHCP.
ping with http://www.google.ru normal (~30).
tried different mirrors, did not help.

sudo ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
    Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
    Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                            1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full 
    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
    Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                            100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
                            1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full 
    Advertised pause frame use: No
    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                                         100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
    Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
    Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Speed: 100Mb/s
    Duplex: Full
    Port: MII
    PHYAD: 0
    Transceiver: internal
    Auto-negotiation: on
    Supports Wake-on: pumbg
    Wake-on: g
    Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
    Link detected: yes 

Cory_j

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From: USA

Registered: 2012-02-16

Posts: 39

Re: Hardware or Arch? (slow internet during installation)

you have the Realtek RTL8111E chip (10/100/1000 Mbit) it's your driver r8169 is bugged you need to use r8168  what ios are you using?

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Annoahim

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Registered: 2012-02-16

Posts: 4

Re: Hardware or Arch? (slow internet during installation)

Ios?
Sorry for my english

anakai

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Registered: 2011-02-17

Posts: 11

Re: Hardware or Arch? (slow internet during installation)

i think he is meaning "iso" maybe use a diffrent mirror when installing i think some of the mirrors are throttled.

Annoahim

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Registered: 2012-02-16

Posts: 4

Re: Hardware or Arch? (slow internet during installation)

I chose the mirror on http://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/. Unfortunately, did not help.

ssfdre38

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From: South San Francisco CA

Registered: 2012-02-05

Posts: 6

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Re: Hardware or Arch? (slow internet during installation)

what mirror did you choose cause some "throttled" their servers so you get only a very limited speed and not the full 100MBps

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meph

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Registered: 2011-06-06

Posts: 160

Re: Hardware or Arch? (slow internet during installation)

Try and test your connection in other way than via archlinux mirrors. For example:

wget http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/100MB.zip

I tried it myself, could download it at ~5 MB/s. If you can get something similar (or whatever is appropriate for your connection), then the problem must be elsewhere than your hardware.

edit: it's just a broadband test file, can't even exctract it. Nothing harmful, in case you were wondering what am I feeding you

Last edited by meph (2012-02-20 13:46:06)

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Cory_j

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From: USA

Registered: 2012-02-16

Posts: 39

Re: Hardware or Arch? (slow internet during installation)

you can try a test ios here http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/  its what i did the older Kernel had a bad bug in them for the Realtek RTL8111E chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)

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Annoahim

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Registered: 2012-02-16

Posts: 4

Re: Hardware or Arch? (slow internet during installation)

After a recent kernel update problem is gone. Thank you all for your feedback!