Ubuntu 18.04 slow wired connection speed
Have tried several fixes from the internet on this, no luck so far.
Just installed 18.04 on an old laptop, dual boot with Win 10. I've played with Linux a bit before (on a Raspberry Pi) but am not tremendously experienced with it.
Machine has a Broadcom BCM5906M controller, PCID 14e4:1713 (rev 02)
When booted to Win10, the machine connects to my internal network and handles file transfers (to a Raspberry Pi OpenElec Kodi box) just fine, with "normal" transfer speeds (greater than 10MB/sec...)
When booted to Ubuntu 18.04, transfer speeds slow to a crawl, usually a bit below 100k/sec.
I've tried following directions to update the NIC driver (using latest firmware package firmware-b43-installer) with no change.
I've also tried (just for the heck of it, although I didn't think they'd do anything for internal network connections) disabling IPV6 and unchecking the "make available to others".
I ran a command that I can't remember right now that gave me a list of devices, it reported this device has a "size:" of 100Mbit/s and "capacity:" 100Mbit/s so it seems that Ubuntu is detecting the device correctly.
I've tried connecting from this machine into several other machines on the network, all with the same results.
I've tried using different ethernet cables and different ports on the switch - including testing a specific port with another machine, getting 10Mbit/sec transfer rates, then plugging this machine into the same port with the same cable and getting 100k.
Seems to me pretty definitive that:
- The hardware in the machine is working properly - I can boot it to Win10 and with no other changes and the transfer speed works fine.
- The network connectivity is fine - I can use the same cable and port on the switch with a different machine, which works fine...
Therefore I'm thinking it's got to be something in the configuration of Ubuntu...
The machine is very old - I bought it in 2009 - so I don't know if that has something to do with it but just noting here. The fact that it's becoming dog-slow with Windows is why I'm switching it to Linux - that and to give me something to play with
What can I test that would tell me more about the problem?
I ran the commands you recommended, here's the output of them all - does this give us any clues? I'm not seeing anything but then I don't really know this all that well..
As for something eating the bandwidth, the slow transfer rates I'm quoting are on the internal network only, and I'm the only person who uses that so it's hard to imagine. Plus I can reboot the same machine into windows at any time and get 10MB/s transfer rates to and from the same devices on the same network...
sudo apt install net-tools
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
net-tools is already the newest version (1.60+git20161116.90da8a0-1ubuntu1).
net-tools set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
ifconfig -a
enp5s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.103 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::21f:16ff:fe01:1913 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:1f:16:01:19:13 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 14843 bytes 12837145 (12.8 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 10 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 11385 bytes 9129397 (9.1 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 17
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 507 bytes 41848 (41.8 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 507 bytes 41848 (41.8 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp6s0: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1f:3c:6c:a2:22 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
arp -a
EpsonWF3620Wired (192.168.1.110) at ac:18:26:56:ea:06 [ether] on enp5s0
HomeOffice (192.168.1.100) at 00:24:1d:d0:6e:49 [ether] on enp5s0
TMHOME (192.168.1.1) at 10:0d:7f:7d:ad:6b [ether] on enp5s0
lscpi
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
0a:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
0a:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
0a:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
0a:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
Turned off everything in the network except the router, did the ifconfig on that, no overruns. Turned everything back on one by one, at the end of that STILL no overruns...ifconfig -a on that below.
Meanwhile, even with no overruns showing, problem still exists. If I turn off everything in the network except the Linux machine and a desktop (on windows 10) that I have a drive shared out to the network) transfer speed is still 100K or less.
I also tried turning off everything (including the desktop) but turning on a Raspberry Pi that I have configured with OpenElec Kodi to be a media center (that's actually my usual target for file transfers from the Linux laptop), same result - no overruns but also slow transfer speeds.
Seems somewhat conclusive that the slow transfer speeds are unlikely to be happening as a result of unseen network traffic, to me...
enp5s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.103 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::21f:16ff:fe01:1913 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:1f:16:01:19:13 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 6544 bytes 1460859 (1.4 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 1 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 8308 bytes 9553991 (9.5 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 17
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 617 bytes 50596 (50.5 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 617 bytes 50596 (50.5 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp6s0: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1f:3c:6c:a2:22 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
12/14/2018 12:28 PM
Thanks, here's the output from lscpi.
For some reason, the device ("enp5s0") shows interrupt 17 in the ifconfig listing but interrupt 27 in lscpi...?
Regardless, there don't appear to be conflicts in either 17 or 27...
Device DMA IRQ I/O Ports
0000:00:02.0 0000-0000
0000:00:1a.0 0000-0000
0000:00:1a.1 0000-0000
0000:00:1d.0 0000-0000
0000:00:1d.1 0000-0000
0000:00:1d.2 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.0 0000-0000 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.1 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.2 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.3 0000-0000
acpi 9
ACPI 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
ahci 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
ahci[0000:00:1f.2] 24
ata_piix 14 15 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
cascade 4
dma 0000-0000
dma1 0000-0000
dma2 0000-0000
EC 0000-0000 0000-0000
enp5s0 27
fpu 0000-0000
i801_smbus 19 0000-0000
i8042 1 12
i915 16
iTCO_wdt.0.auto 0000-0000 0000-0000
iwl3945 25
keyboard 0000-0000 0000-0000
PCI 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
pic1 0000-0000
pic2 0000-0000
pnp 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
PNP0C04:00 0000-0000
PNP0C09:00 0000-0000 0000-0000
r852 18
rtc0 8 0000-0000
snd_hda_intel:card0 26
timer 0
timer0 0000-0000
timer1 0000-0000
uhci_hcd 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
uhci_hcd:usb4 21
uhci_hcd:usb5 23
vesafb 0000-0000
networking drivers broadcom
asked Dec 11 at 12:28
tmaddison
113
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Have tried several fixes from the internet on this, no luck so far.
Just installed 18.04 on an old laptop, dual boot with Win 10. I've played with Linux a bit before (on a Raspberry Pi) but am not tremendously experienced with it.
Machine has a Broadcom BCM5906M controller, PCID 14e4:1713 (rev 02)
When booted to Win10, the machine connects to my internal network and handles file transfers (to a Raspberry Pi OpenElec Kodi box) just fine, with "normal" transfer speeds (greater than 10MB/sec...)
When booted to Ubuntu 18.04, transfer speeds slow to a crawl, usually a bit below 100k/sec.
I've tried following directions to update the NIC driver (using latest firmware package firmware-b43-installer) with no change.
I've also tried (just for the heck of it, although I didn't think they'd do anything for internal network connections) disabling IPV6 and unchecking the "make available to others".
I ran a command that I can't remember right now that gave me a list of devices, it reported this device has a "size:" of 100Mbit/s and "capacity:" 100Mbit/s so it seems that Ubuntu is detecting the device correctly.
I've tried connecting from this machine into several other machines on the network, all with the same results.
I've tried using different ethernet cables and different ports on the switch - including testing a specific port with another machine, getting 10Mbit/sec transfer rates, then plugging this machine into the same port with the same cable and getting 100k.
Seems to me pretty definitive that:
- The hardware in the machine is working properly - I can boot it to Win10 and with no other changes and the transfer speed works fine.
- The network connectivity is fine - I can use the same cable and port on the switch with a different machine, which works fine...
Therefore I'm thinking it's got to be something in the configuration of Ubuntu...
The machine is very old - I bought it in 2009 - so I don't know if that has something to do with it but just noting here. The fact that it's becoming dog-slow with Windows is why I'm switching it to Linux - that and to give me something to play with
What can I test that would tell me more about the problem?
I ran the commands you recommended, here's the output of them all - does this give us any clues? I'm not seeing anything but then I don't really know this all that well..
As for something eating the bandwidth, the slow transfer rates I'm quoting are on the internal network only, and I'm the only person who uses that so it's hard to imagine. Plus I can reboot the same machine into windows at any time and get 10MB/s transfer rates to and from the same devices on the same network...
sudo apt install net-tools
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
net-tools is already the newest version (1.60+git20161116.90da8a0-1ubuntu1).
net-tools set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
ifconfig -a
enp5s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.103 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::21f:16ff:fe01:1913 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:1f:16:01:19:13 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 14843 bytes 12837145 (12.8 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 10 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 11385 bytes 9129397 (9.1 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 17
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 507 bytes 41848 (41.8 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 507 bytes 41848 (41.8 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp6s0: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1f:3c:6c:a2:22 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
arp -a
EpsonWF3620Wired (192.168.1.110) at ac:18:26:56:ea:06 [ether] on enp5s0
HomeOffice (192.168.1.100) at 00:24:1d:d0:6e:49 [ether] on enp5s0
TMHOME (192.168.1.1) at 10:0d:7f:7d:ad:6b [ether] on enp5s0
lscpi
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
0a:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
0a:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
0a:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
0a:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
Turned off everything in the network except the router, did the ifconfig on that, no overruns. Turned everything back on one by one, at the end of that STILL no overruns...ifconfig -a on that below.
Meanwhile, even with no overruns showing, problem still exists. If I turn off everything in the network except the Linux machine and a desktop (on windows 10) that I have a drive shared out to the network) transfer speed is still 100K or less.
I also tried turning off everything (including the desktop) but turning on a Raspberry Pi that I have configured with OpenElec Kodi to be a media center (that's actually my usual target for file transfers from the Linux laptop), same result - no overruns but also slow transfer speeds.
Seems somewhat conclusive that the slow transfer speeds are unlikely to be happening as a result of unseen network traffic, to me...
enp5s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.103 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::21f:16ff:fe01:1913 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:1f:16:01:19:13 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 6544 bytes 1460859 (1.4 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 1 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 8308 bytes 9553991 (9.5 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 17
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 617 bytes 50596 (50.5 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 617 bytes 50596 (50.5 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp6s0: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1f:3c:6c:a2:22 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
12/14/2018 12:28 PM
Thanks, here's the output from lscpi.
For some reason, the device ("enp5s0") shows interrupt 17 in the ifconfig listing but interrupt 27 in lscpi...?
Regardless, there don't appear to be conflicts in either 17 or 27...
Device DMA IRQ I/O Ports
0000:00:02.0 0000-0000
0000:00:1a.0 0000-0000
0000:00:1a.1 0000-0000
0000:00:1d.0 0000-0000
0000:00:1d.1 0000-0000
0000:00:1d.2 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.0 0000-0000 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.1 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.2 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.3 0000-0000
acpi 9
ACPI 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
ahci 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
ahci[0000:00:1f.2] 24
ata_piix 14 15 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
cascade 4
dma 0000-0000
dma1 0000-0000
dma2 0000-0000
EC 0000-0000 0000-0000
enp5s0 27
fpu 0000-0000
i801_smbus 19 0000-0000
i8042 1 12
i915 16
iTCO_wdt.0.auto 0000-0000 0000-0000
iwl3945 25
keyboard 0000-0000 0000-0000
PCI 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
pic1 0000-0000
pic2 0000-0000
pnp 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
PNP0C04:00 0000-0000
PNP0C09:00 0000-0000 0000-0000
r852 18
rtc0 8 0000-0000
snd_hda_intel:card0 26
timer 0
timer0 0000-0000
timer1 0000-0000
uhci_hcd 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
uhci_hcd:usb4 21
uhci_hcd:usb5 23
vesafb 0000-0000
networking drivers broadcom
asked Dec 11 at 12:28
tmaddison
113
Can you post the output of the following commands:sudo apt install net-toolsifconfig -a,arp -a, and if the device is a PCI/PCI-e card,lspci. The first installs the more traditional utilities for managing network interfaces, the second is the linux equivalent ofipconfig /a, the third lists active connections with other devices on your network (which would say whether another device is eating up your bandwidth), and the last one will list more detail about your PCI devices, and might shed some light on what Ubuntu identifies it as.
– Minty
Dec 11 at 15:54
Added details requested to the posting - is that how this is done on this forum? It doesn't seem appropriate to add those details as an "answer" or a "comment".... Sorry if I'm mis-using the process.
– tmaddison
Dec 14 at 14:20
As a general rule, the more information the better. Comments are used to request information/ask what has been tried, etc whereas answers are meant to propose a possible solution to the problem. Answers can be commented on as well.
– Minty
Dec 14 at 15:29
Yourifconfig -aoutput lists your ethernet interface as experiencing overruns. I've never experienced these before, but googling it indicates that your interface is receiving frames faster than it can process. This could be because of the host operating system, but far more likely is a device on your network is the cause (at least from what I see after googling the error).
– Minty
Dec 14 at 15:56
Hmmm.... so if I look at the router's traffic page on the internal network it shows almost nothing - generally less than 100Kbps traffic. And why would the same issue not be affecting transfer speed when the same machine is booted into Windows? I'll try turning off anything connected to the network and see what happens...
– tmaddison
Dec 14 at 17:16
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Have tried several fixes from the internet on this, no luck so far.
Just installed 18.04 on an old laptop, dual boot with Win 10. I've played with Linux a bit before (on a Raspberry Pi) but am not tremendously experienced with it.
Machine has a Broadcom BCM5906M controller, PCID 14e4:1713 (rev 02)
When booted to Win10, the machine connects to my internal network and handles file transfers (to a Raspberry Pi OpenElec Kodi box) just fine, with "normal" transfer speeds (greater than 10MB/sec...)
When booted to Ubuntu 18.04, transfer speeds slow to a crawl, usually a bit below 100k/sec.
I've tried following directions to update the NIC driver (using latest firmware package firmware-b43-installer) with no change.
I've also tried (just for the heck of it, although I didn't think they'd do anything for internal network connections) disabling IPV6 and unchecking the "make available to others".
I ran a command that I can't remember right now that gave me a list of devices, it reported this device has a "size:" of 100Mbit/s and "capacity:" 100Mbit/s so it seems that Ubuntu is detecting the device correctly.
I've tried connecting from this machine into several other machines on the network, all with the same results.
I've tried using different ethernet cables and different ports on the switch - including testing a specific port with another machine, getting 10Mbit/sec transfer rates, then plugging this machine into the same port with the same cable and getting 100k.
Seems to me pretty definitive that:
- The hardware in the machine is working properly - I can boot it to Win10 and with no other changes and the transfer speed works fine.
- The network connectivity is fine - I can use the same cable and port on the switch with a different machine, which works fine...
Therefore I'm thinking it's got to be something in the configuration of Ubuntu...
The machine is very old - I bought it in 2009 - so I don't know if that has something to do with it but just noting here. The fact that it's becoming dog-slow with Windows is why I'm switching it to Linux - that and to give me something to play with
What can I test that would tell me more about the problem?
I ran the commands you recommended, here's the output of them all - does this give us any clues? I'm not seeing anything but then I don't really know this all that well..
As for something eating the bandwidth, the slow transfer rates I'm quoting are on the internal network only, and I'm the only person who uses that so it's hard to imagine. Plus I can reboot the same machine into windows at any time and get 10MB/s transfer rates to and from the same devices on the same network...
sudo apt install net-tools
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
net-tools is already the newest version (1.60+git20161116.90da8a0-1ubuntu1).
net-tools set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
ifconfig -a
enp5s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.103 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::21f:16ff:fe01:1913 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:1f:16:01:19:13 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 14843 bytes 12837145 (12.8 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 10 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 11385 bytes 9129397 (9.1 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 17
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 507 bytes 41848 (41.8 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 507 bytes 41848 (41.8 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp6s0: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1f:3c:6c:a2:22 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
arp -a
EpsonWF3620Wired (192.168.1.110) at ac:18:26:56:ea:06 [ether] on enp5s0
HomeOffice (192.168.1.100) at 00:24:1d:d0:6e:49 [ether] on enp5s0
TMHOME (192.168.1.1) at 10:0d:7f:7d:ad:6b [ether] on enp5s0
lscpi
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
0a:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
0a:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
0a:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
0a:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
Turned off everything in the network except the router, did the ifconfig on that, no overruns. Turned everything back on one by one, at the end of that STILL no overruns...ifconfig -a on that below.
Meanwhile, even with no overruns showing, problem still exists. If I turn off everything in the network except the Linux machine and a desktop (on windows 10) that I have a drive shared out to the network) transfer speed is still 100K or less.
I also tried turning off everything (including the desktop) but turning on a Raspberry Pi that I have configured with OpenElec Kodi to be a media center (that's actually my usual target for file transfers from the Linux laptop), same result - no overruns but also slow transfer speeds.
Seems somewhat conclusive that the slow transfer speeds are unlikely to be happening as a result of unseen network traffic, to me...
enp5s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.103 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::21f:16ff:fe01:1913 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:1f:16:01:19:13 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 6544 bytes 1460859 (1.4 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 1 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 8308 bytes 9553991 (9.5 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 17
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 617 bytes 50596 (50.5 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 617 bytes 50596 (50.5 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp6s0: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1f:3c:6c:a2:22 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
12/14/2018 12:28 PM
Thanks, here's the output from lscpi.
For some reason, the device ("enp5s0") shows interrupt 17 in the ifconfig listing but interrupt 27 in lscpi...?
Regardless, there don't appear to be conflicts in either 17 or 27...
Device DMA IRQ I/O Ports
0000:00:02.0 0000-0000
0000:00:1a.0 0000-0000
0000:00:1a.1 0000-0000
0000:00:1d.0 0000-0000
0000:00:1d.1 0000-0000
0000:00:1d.2 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.0 0000-0000 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.1 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.2 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.3 0000-0000
acpi 9
ACPI 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
ahci 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
ahci[0000:00:1f.2] 24
ata_piix 14 15 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
cascade 4
dma 0000-0000
dma1 0000-0000
dma2 0000-0000
EC 0000-0000 0000-0000
enp5s0 27
fpu 0000-0000
i801_smbus 19 0000-0000
i8042 1 12
i915 16
iTCO_wdt.0.auto 0000-0000 0000-0000
iwl3945 25
keyboard 0000-0000 0000-0000
PCI 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
pic1 0000-0000
pic2 0000-0000
pnp 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
PNP0C04:00 0000-0000
PNP0C09:00 0000-0000 0000-0000
r852 18
rtc0 8 0000-0000
snd_hda_intel:card0 26
timer 0
timer0 0000-0000
timer1 0000-0000
uhci_hcd 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
uhci_hcd:usb4 21
uhci_hcd:usb5 23
vesafb 0000-0000
networking drivers broadcom
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Have tried several fixes from the internet on this, no luck so far.
Just installed 18.04 on an old laptop, dual boot with Win 10. I've played with Linux a bit before (on a Raspberry Pi) but am not tremendously experienced with it.
Machine has a Broadcom BCM5906M controller, PCID 14e4:1713 (rev 02)
When booted to Win10, the machine connects to my internal network and handles file transfers (to a Raspberry Pi OpenElec Kodi box) just fine, with "normal" transfer speeds (greater than 10MB/sec...)
When booted to Ubuntu 18.04, transfer speeds slow to a crawl, usually a bit below 100k/sec.
I've tried following directions to update the NIC driver (using latest firmware package firmware-b43-installer) with no change.
I've also tried (just for the heck of it, although I didn't think they'd do anything for internal network connections) disabling IPV6 and unchecking the "make available to others".
I ran a command that I can't remember right now that gave me a list of devices, it reported this device has a "size:" of 100Mbit/s and "capacity:" 100Mbit/s so it seems that Ubuntu is detecting the device correctly.
I've tried connecting from this machine into several other machines on the network, all with the same results.
I've tried using different ethernet cables and different ports on the switch - including testing a specific port with another machine, getting 10Mbit/sec transfer rates, then plugging this machine into the same port with the same cable and getting 100k.
Seems to me pretty definitive that:
- The hardware in the machine is working properly - I can boot it to Win10 and with no other changes and the transfer speed works fine.
- The network connectivity is fine - I can use the same cable and port on the switch with a different machine, which works fine...
Therefore I'm thinking it's got to be something in the configuration of Ubuntu...
The machine is very old - I bought it in 2009 - so I don't know if that has something to do with it but just noting here. The fact that it's becoming dog-slow with Windows is why I'm switching it to Linux - that and to give me something to play with
What can I test that would tell me more about the problem?
I ran the commands you recommended, here's the output of them all - does this give us any clues? I'm not seeing anything but then I don't really know this all that well..
As for something eating the bandwidth, the slow transfer rates I'm quoting are on the internal network only, and I'm the only person who uses that so it's hard to imagine. Plus I can reboot the same machine into windows at any time and get 10MB/s transfer rates to and from the same devices on the same network...
sudo apt install net-tools
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
net-tools is already the newest version (1.60+git20161116.90da8a0-1ubuntu1).
net-tools set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
ifconfig -a
enp5s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.103 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::21f:16ff:fe01:1913 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:1f:16:01:19:13 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 14843 bytes 12837145 (12.8 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 10 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 11385 bytes 9129397 (9.1 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 17
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 507 bytes 41848 (41.8 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 507 bytes 41848 (41.8 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp6s0: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1f:3c:6c:a2:22 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
arp -a
EpsonWF3620Wired (192.168.1.110) at ac:18:26:56:ea:06 [ether] on enp5s0
HomeOffice (192.168.1.100) at 00:24:1d:d0:6e:49 [ether] on enp5s0
TMHOME (192.168.1.1) at 10:0d:7f:7d:ad:6b [ether] on enp5s0
lscpi
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
0a:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
0a:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
0a:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
0a:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
Turned off everything in the network except the router, did the ifconfig on that, no overruns. Turned everything back on one by one, at the end of that STILL no overruns...ifconfig -a on that below.
Meanwhile, even with no overruns showing, problem still exists. If I turn off everything in the network except the Linux machine and a desktop (on windows 10) that I have a drive shared out to the network) transfer speed is still 100K or less.
I also tried turning off everything (including the desktop) but turning on a Raspberry Pi that I have configured with OpenElec Kodi to be a media center (that's actually my usual target for file transfers from the Linux laptop), same result - no overruns but also slow transfer speeds.
Seems somewhat conclusive that the slow transfer speeds are unlikely to be happening as a result of unseen network traffic, to me...
enp5s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.103 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::21f:16ff:fe01:1913 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:1f:16:01:19:13 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 6544 bytes 1460859 (1.4 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 1 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 8308 bytes 9553991 (9.5 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 17
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 617 bytes 50596 (50.5 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 617 bytes 50596 (50.5 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp6s0: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1f:3c:6c:a2:22 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
12/14/2018 12:28 PM
Thanks, here's the output from lscpi.
For some reason, the device ("enp5s0") shows interrupt 17 in the ifconfig listing but interrupt 27 in lscpi...?
Regardless, there don't appear to be conflicts in either 17 or 27...
Device DMA IRQ I/O Ports
0000:00:02.0 0000-0000
0000:00:1a.0 0000-0000
0000:00:1a.1 0000-0000
0000:00:1d.0 0000-0000
0000:00:1d.1 0000-0000
0000:00:1d.2 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.0 0000-0000 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.1 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.2 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
0000:00:1f.3 0000-0000
acpi 9
ACPI 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
ahci 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
ahci[0000:00:1f.2] 24
ata_piix 14 15 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
cascade 4
dma 0000-0000
dma1 0000-0000
dma2 0000-0000
EC 0000-0000 0000-0000
enp5s0 27
fpu 0000-0000
i801_smbus 19 0000-0000
i8042 1 12
i915 16
iTCO_wdt.0.auto 0000-0000 0000-0000
iwl3945 25
keyboard 0000-0000 0000-0000
PCI 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
pic1 0000-0000
pic2 0000-0000
pnp 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
PNP0C04:00 0000-0000
PNP0C09:00 0000-0000 0000-0000
r852 18
rtc0 8 0000-0000
snd_hda_intel:card0 26
timer 0
timer0 0000-0000
timer1 0000-0000
uhci_hcd 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000 0000-0000
uhci_hcd:usb4 21
uhci_hcd:usb5 23
vesafb 0000-0000
networking drivers broadcom
networking drivers broadcom
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Can you post the output of the following commands:sudo apt install net-toolsifconfig -a,arp -a, and if the device is a PCI/PCI-e card,lspci. The first installs the more traditional utilities for managing network interfaces, the second is the linux equivalent ofipconfig /a, the third lists active connections with other devices on your network (which would say whether another device is eating up your bandwidth), and the last one will list more detail about your PCI devices, and might shed some light on what Ubuntu identifies it as.
– Minty
Dec 11 at 15:54
Added details requested to the posting - is that how this is done on this forum? It doesn't seem appropriate to add those details as an "answer" or a "comment".... Sorry if I'm mis-using the process.
– tmaddison
Dec 14 at 14:20
As a general rule, the more information the better. Comments are used to request information/ask what has been tried, etc whereas answers are meant to propose a possible solution to the problem. Answers can be commented on as well.
– Minty
Dec 14 at 15:29
Yourifconfig -aoutput lists your ethernet interface as experiencing overruns. I've never experienced these before, but googling it indicates that your interface is receiving frames faster than it can process. This could be because of the host operating system, but far more likely is a device on your network is the cause (at least from what I see after googling the error).
– Minty
Dec 14 at 15:56
Hmmm.... so if I look at the router's traffic page on the internal network it shows almost nothing - generally less than 100Kbps traffic. And why would the same issue not be affecting transfer speed when the same machine is booted into Windows? I'll try turning off anything connected to the network and see what happens...
– tmaddison
Dec 14 at 17:16
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Can you post the output of the following commands:sudo apt install net-toolsifconfig -a,arp -a, and if the device is a PCI/PCI-e card,lspci. The first installs the more traditional utilities for managing network interfaces, the second is the linux equivalent ofipconfig /a, the third lists active connections with other devices on your network (which would say whether another device is eating up your bandwidth), and the last one will list more detail about your PCI devices, and might shed some light on what Ubuntu identifies it as.
– Minty
Dec 11 at 15:54
Added details requested to the posting - is that how this is done on this forum? It doesn't seem appropriate to add those details as an "answer" or a "comment".... Sorry if I'm mis-using the process.
– tmaddison
Dec 14 at 14:20
As a general rule, the more information the better. Comments are used to request information/ask what has been tried, etc whereas answers are meant to propose a possible solution to the problem. Answers can be commented on as well.
– Minty
Dec 14 at 15:29
Yourifconfig -aoutput lists your ethernet interface as experiencing overruns. I've never experienced these before, but googling it indicates that your interface is receiving frames faster than it can process. This could be because of the host operating system, but far more likely is a device on your network is the cause (at least from what I see after googling the error).
– Minty
Dec 14 at 15:56
Hmmm.... so if I look at the router's traffic page on the internal network it shows almost nothing - generally less than 100Kbps traffic. And why would the same issue not be affecting transfer speed when the same machine is booted into Windows? I'll try turning off anything connected to the network and see what happens...
– tmaddison
Dec 14 at 17:16
Can you post the output of the following commands:
sudo apt install net-tools ifconfig -a, arp -a, and if the device is a PCI/PCI-e card, lspci. The first installs the more traditional utilities for managing network interfaces, the second is the linux equivalent of ipconfig /a, the third lists active connections with other devices on your network (which would say whether another device is eating up your bandwidth), and the last one will list more detail about your PCI devices, and might shed some light on what Ubuntu identifies it as.– Minty
Dec 11 at 15:54
Can you post the output of the following commands:
sudo apt install net-tools ifconfig -a, arp -a, and if the device is a PCI/PCI-e card, lspci. The first installs the more traditional utilities for managing network interfaces, the second is the linux equivalent of ipconfig /a, the third lists active connections with other devices on your network (which would say whether another device is eating up your bandwidth), and the last one will list more detail about your PCI devices, and might shed some light on what Ubuntu identifies it as.– Minty
Dec 11 at 15:54
Added details requested to the posting - is that how this is done on this forum? It doesn't seem appropriate to add those details as an "answer" or a "comment".... Sorry if I'm mis-using the process.
– tmaddison
Dec 14 at 14:20
Added details requested to the posting - is that how this is done on this forum? It doesn't seem appropriate to add those details as an "answer" or a "comment".... Sorry if I'm mis-using the process.
– tmaddison
Dec 14 at 14:20
As a general rule, the more information the better. Comments are used to request information/ask what has been tried, etc whereas answers are meant to propose a possible solution to the problem. Answers can be commented on as well.
– Minty
Dec 14 at 15:29
As a general rule, the more information the better. Comments are used to request information/ask what has been tried, etc whereas answers are meant to propose a possible solution to the problem. Answers can be commented on as well.
– Minty
Dec 14 at 15:29
Your
ifconfig -a output lists your ethernet interface as experiencing overruns. I've never experienced these before, but googling it indicates that your interface is receiving frames faster than it can process. This could be because of the host operating system, but far more likely is a device on your network is the cause (at least from what I see after googling the error).– Minty
Dec 14 at 15:56
Your
ifconfig -a output lists your ethernet interface as experiencing overruns. I've never experienced these before, but googling it indicates that your interface is receiving frames faster than it can process. This could be because of the host operating system, but far more likely is a device on your network is the cause (at least from what I see after googling the error).– Minty
Dec 14 at 15:56
Hmmm.... so if I look at the router's traffic page on the internal network it shows almost nothing - generally less than 100Kbps traffic. And why would the same issue not be affecting transfer speed when the same machine is booted into Windows? I'll try turning off anything connected to the network and see what happens...
– tmaddison
Dec 14 at 17:16
Hmmm.... so if I look at the router's traffic page on the internal network it shows almost nothing - generally less than 100Kbps traffic. And why would the same issue not be affecting transfer speed when the same machine is booted into Windows? I'll try turning off anything connected to the network and see what happens...
– tmaddison
Dec 14 at 17:16
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Can you post the output of the following commands:
sudo apt install net-toolsifconfig -a,arp -a, and if the device is a PCI/PCI-e card,lspci. The first installs the more traditional utilities for managing network interfaces, the second is the linux equivalent ofipconfig /a, the third lists active connections with other devices on your network (which would say whether another device is eating up your bandwidth), and the last one will list more detail about your PCI devices, and might shed some light on what Ubuntu identifies it as.– Minty
Dec 11 at 15:54
Added details requested to the posting - is that how this is done on this forum? It doesn't seem appropriate to add those details as an "answer" or a "comment".... Sorry if I'm mis-using the process.
– tmaddison
Dec 14 at 14:20
As a general rule, the more information the better. Comments are used to request information/ask what has been tried, etc whereas answers are meant to propose a possible solution to the problem. Answers can be commented on as well.
– Minty
Dec 14 at 15:29
Your
ifconfig -aoutput lists your ethernet interface as experiencing overruns. I've never experienced these before, but googling it indicates that your interface is receiving frames faster than it can process. This could be because of the host operating system, but far more likely is a device on your network is the cause (at least from what I see after googling the error).– Minty
Dec 14 at 15:56
Hmmm.... so if I look at the router's traffic page on the internal network it shows almost nothing - generally less than 100Kbps traffic. And why would the same issue not be affecting transfer speed when the same machine is booted into Windows? I'll try turning off anything connected to the network and see what happens...
– tmaddison
Dec 14 at 17:16