[TizzyT]

Originally Posted by arnes_king That's the driver that i installed before, and i am right now downloading the control suite, will post here when finished ************* [ - Post Merged - ] ************* @TizzyT the tool shows just the information that are currently in use, gives some basic tests and that's all ..... I found this on broadcoms website but i don't know what exactly they mean by this xD " Why is there no option to force the speed and duplex to 1000Mb/s - Full Duplex? Per the IEEE standard, the only IEEE compliant way to operate at 1000Mb/s-Full duplex is through auto-negotiation. If the network switch being used is IEEE compliant, the link speed will auto-negotiate to 1000Mb/s-Full duplex when autoneg is selected." I thought that maybe it's because of the ethernet cable, because here you can just buy cheap ones, and the quallity may be bad and because of that i couldn't get 1000 Mb/s, but then when i disconnect the cable from my PC the 1000 Mb/s option should appear, but it's not .... ************* [ - Post Merged - ] ************* I did the "Cable analysis" with the tool, it says that 2 cable pairs are good and 2 short :/ idk what that means Tried it with another cable then it says 2 pairs good and 2 pairs open .... It seems that my cable is limiting the speed, because when i plug it in, there stands "Link" 100 Mbps, when i disconnect the cable nothing is there, will try tommorow to buy some better expensive cable and test it

Hmm maybe the cable might be the problem. For a gigabit Ethernet to function there needs to be 4 pairs good, the fast Ethernet or 100Mbps if I remember correctly (Barely pay attention in my Cisco class lol) uses only 2 pairs and has 2 more pairs as backup. Buying a better cable might work.

PS: Did you try connecting the cable that had 2 good and 2 open and see if you can set the 1000Mbps/1.0Gbps option???

[KillerBug]

I see a few likely possibilities here:
1.) Your network adapter is made by Broadcom; even if it was working at 1gbps, it would be unstable at these speeds. These devices rely heavily on the CPU to do all the heavy lifting, and thus any little disruption from a windows service or something can throw off a sustained transfer. You can get a decent Intel hardware gigabit adapter cheap these days.
2.) Your cable to the PS3 or to the PC might be crummy. Technically Cat-5E should work, but spend the extra $0.50 to get Cat6 with molded ends.
3.) Your hub/router might be crummy, or might have an outdated firmware.

[TizzyT]

Originally Posted by KillerBug I see a few likely possibilities here: 1.) Your network adapter is made by Broadcom; even if it was working at 1gbps, it would be unstable at these speeds. These devices rely heavily on the CPU to do all the heavy lifting, and thus any little disruption from a windows service or something can throw off a sustained transfer. You can get a decent Intel hardware gigabit adapter cheap these days. 2.) Your cable to the PS3 or to the PC might be crummy. Technically Cat-5E should work, but spend the extra $0.50 to get Cat6 with molded ends. 3.) Your hub/router might be crummy, or might have an outdated firmware.

Back off KillerBug I got this one lol, Just kidding.

Um...I use broadcom myself on my brothers computers and does Giga just fine, so the likely hood of that be crappy is at least in my experience almost none. The cable I have learned in my Cisco class can make a difference in networking so that might be a cause. Also to state is the he is doing a direct connection from the computer to the PS3 so there is not a router or hub issue. Honestly I'm confused as hell about all this lol and im usually good at these things but this time its just driving me crazy, KillerBug more assistance on this issue would be great because I'm sick and need to get to bed...

[KillerBug]

I missed the crossover cable bit. If he is using an older crossover cable, then that is almost certainly the problem. 100mbps crossover cables WILL NOT do gigabit speeds because they swap the wrong wires to the wrong spots.

[KillerBug]

Originally Posted by Debra 785 Triet that, but it doesn't shows me the transfer speed, but i went to "Task manager" and i saw that it transfers about 80%-90% of 100 Mb, and i think i know where the problem is, when i go to task manager and then on "Networking", i see down there The local area connection that i am using, and the "Link speed" is 100 Mbps (megabits, about 12.5 MB) and there i see a percentage of how much it uses in that moment, so that means that it is limited to only 100 Mbps, but why ? why isn't it 100 MBps ?

Go Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable

And check the diagram under, "Gigabit T568B crossover" to make sure it is a real gigabit crossover cable.

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BTW...there is no such thing as 100 MB (megabyte) networking. Networking is all don in bits, not in bytes. Gigabit networking = 125MB.

[TizzyT]

Originally Posted by KillerBug [edit] BTW...there is no such thing as 100 MB (megabyte) networking. Networking is all don in bits, not in bytes. Gigabit networking = 125MB.

He knows now....mentioned it here:
http://www.ps3hax.net/showpost.php?p...3&postcount=11
Although he seems to already know how to convert between the two.

Edit: so Killerbug how the overclock project coming along???

[KillerBug]

Originally Posted by TizzyT Edit: so Killerbug how the overclock project coming along???

Never even got started; the first step was to get the cooling up to snuff...but one of my TECs quit on me and killed the CELL (which cannot be replaced). I will say that my initial idea for changing the clock (with dry ice) did not work.

[arnes_king]

@TizzyT
@KillerBug

I am now 90% sure that the cable makes me the problem, first, the test showed that only 2 pairs are good, second like i said here are the cables cheap and i didn't saw anywhere cat6 to buy, just this cat5e, and third, they have all like 500 m of the cable in one thing, and then when you buy you say how much you need and they just cut it off and then they use some tool to get the heads on again, that's the problem i think :/

Will see if i can find some shop or service that sells better quality cables

[arnes_king]

Hahaha YEAH GOT 1 GIGABIT NOW :D

like i said before i have here 8 PC-s, so i looked at the cables of all, and found 3-4 black (looking better) on which stands Cat5e 100 MHz .....

So i tried to connect that cable to my PC and to the PS3 straight, and know what, it says that it is 1000 Mb/s :D


Finally :D


@TizzyT

It was the second cable that i tested with the broadcom tool, which said 2 pairs good 2 pairs open :D
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Ok, have tested it now, i still don't have the 1000 Mb/s option in my network card's properties just 100 Mb/s (but i checked "auto"), but the broadcom tool tells that it is 1000 Mb/s and the cable test says at all 4 pairs that they are 1Gigabit Links when connected to my PS3

Tried now to transfer a game that has big files, the transfer went now 20,000 KB/s to 25,000 KB/s, that's more then double the speed that i got earlier, and i can say it's enough, in Kb that's 160000 Kb/s to 200000 Kb/s (15% - 19% of 1 Gb)

Earlier i was just getting max 11,000 KB/s = 88000 Kb/s (8% of 1 Gb)

lol everything calculated to detail here : http://www.matisse.net/bitcalc/?inpu...otation=legacy

[TizzyT]

Originally Posted by arnes_king Hahaha YEAH GOT 1 GIGABIT NOW :D like i said before i have here 8 PC-s, so i looked at the cables of all, and found 3-4 black (looking better) on which stands Cat5e 100 MHz ..... So i tried to connect that cable to my PC and to the PS3 straight, and know what, it says that it is 1000 Mb/s :D Finally :D @TizzyT It was the second cable that i tested with the broadcom tool, which said 2 pairs good 2 pairs open :D ************* [ - Post Merged - ] ************* Ok, have tested it now, i still don't have the 1000 Mb/s option in my network card's properties just 100 Mb/s (but i checked "auto"), but the broadcom tool tells that it is 1000 Mb/s and the cable test says at all 4 pairs that they are 1Gigabit Links when connected to my PS3 Tried now to transfer a game that has big files, the transfer went now 20,000 KB/s to 25,000 KB/s, that's more then double the speed that i got earlier, and i can say it's enough, in Kb that's 160000 Kb/s to 200000 Kb/s (15% - 19% of 1 Gb) Earlier i was just getting max 11,000 KB/s = 88000 Kb/s (8% of 1 Gb) lol everything calculated to detail here : http://www.matisse.net/bitcalc/?inpu...otation=legacy

Yeah you are never going to get the full 1000Mbps throughput, that is normal. There are other things that are a factor to the bottleneck. Like the harddrive will not read/write data at that speed, normally hard drives today read at about 60-80 MBps and writes at about 40-60MBps, off the bat you are limited to about ~40 MBps because that is the slowest speed. Also to note is that the PS3 uses a 2.5 inch HDD so speeds might be even slightly lower, then there are bottlenecks in the system, components, protocols (TCP), and then some latency. So moving down to about 19-20MBps might be normal. I haven't transferred a game in awhile because my PS3 is broke but I think maybe I was getting about the same speeds on my Gigabit connection, only difference is that I was using a crossover cable and not a straight-through. Maybe @KillerBug might tell you what kind of speeds he gets when he connects and transfers using gigabit....

PS: yeah I use MBps this time around as I'm more comfortable, plus I was also talking about HDD speeds so it might be kinda confusing switching between the 2.