Marvell Yukon Gigabit ethernet card problem

[Babish]

For some reason it seems that the computers equipped with an onboard marvell Yukon Gigabit nic are incredibly slow on my hub, all other cards seems to work just fine. I think that my hub doesn't support a fonctionnality of those nic.

Anyone have an idea on how to set up those cards to work with a relatively old 10/100 hub (Allied Telesyn FH716) ?

[bailey]

in order to run a gigabyte card, it must be supported with a gigabyte router and switching /hub,
otherwise it defaults to the slowest link, and a standard dumb hub will be the slowest link in the lan, and will also have collissions, and retries all the time.

[Babish]

but my gigabit cards aren't transfering at 100 mbps and i have no 10 mbps on my network. I don't want to make then running at 1000 mbps, i just want them to work at 100 mbps beacause they are currently transfering at about 5 mbps

[bailey]

on the task bar you will have a network connection icon.
place the mouse pointer and see what the connection is at for the network.

[Babish]

i'm connected at 100 mbps. When i connect those cards directly to a router, the transfers are good and that's what makes me think that there is an incompatibily between my gigabit cards and my hub. There must be some kind of settings that i can do o the cards to disable the incompatible protocol of some sort.

[bailey]

not really, the whole problem is the hub, replace it with a gigabyte switch and your problems will disapear.
its the bottelneck

[Babish]

i dond't have the money, i'll try something else but thanks anyway

[glc]

You don't need a gigabit switch - a cheap 100 megabit switch will work fine. Those can be found for $30 or less. Get rid of the hub - collisions are killing you.