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April 17th, 2006, 02:01 PM
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| HOWTO: Speed up wired internet connection This worked for me here with my wired connection on my iMac G5. I noticed that my PC was always running at a faster speed than my iMac, almost twice as fast using both speakeasy.net and bandwidthplace.com speedtests. The fix for me was going to System Prefrences > Network > Click Configure on Built-in Ethernet. Go to the Ethernet tab and change Configure to Manual. On the next drop down boxes, change Speed to 100baseTX and the Duplex to full-duplex. Apply the settings and now run the speed tests.
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April 18th, 2006, 08:17 PM
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| Hey, just tried that, it sure feels faster, but I haven't ran any tests yet. Thanks!
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April 19th, 2006, 07:03 AM
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| This probably depends on your ISP. I've never had any problems with my default setup, and after applying these changes, my connection actually tested worse on some of the sites I tried (and about the same on some others, but not faster on any). *shrug* YMMV, I guess.
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April 22nd, 2006, 03:41 AM
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| Speed Up Can you clarify this a bit? Is this for speeding up a dial up modem, or for DSL? |
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April 22nd, 2006, 07:59 AM
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| not for networks though. i didn't notice a speed increase as such, more that it slowed to about 0kb/s, almost instantly...
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April 23rd, 2006, 01:09 AM
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| Well, only if your switch supports 100K/s, full duplex, should you choose those settings... My ethernet is set to autonegotiate, and it settles on 100 full on its own, so that would make no difference.
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