Network bridge not running at 100mbps

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keny - 29 Nov 2006 03:14 GMT

Up until now, i have always bridged all networks connections on this machine
as it's my internet gateway, and thie bridge allows anyone to come to my
house, and connect either via wireless, bluetooth, fast ethernet etc and see
the whole of my network.

But all of a sudden the network bridge fails to fun at top speed, i create
it, it runs at 100mbps, after restarting or coming out of hibernate, it's set
to 10mbps consquently slowing the whole of my network down.

Does anybody have any idea why this may be the case because as it is, i have
to delete the bridge completely and leave it with my ethernet network
accessible with my internet connection sharing

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John Wunderlich - 30 Nov 2006 02:27 GMT

> Up until now, i have always bridged all networks connections on
> this machine as it's my internet gateway, and thie bridge allows
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> is, i have to delete the bridge completely and leave it with my
> ethernet network accessible with my internet connection sharing

Start the Device Manager and right-click on your NIC device and
select "Properties". On the properties screen, click on the
"Advanced" tab. One of the properties should be "Speed/Duplex" and
usually this is set to "Auto Detect". Auto detect does not always
work dependably, so change this setting to 100 Mbps and whatever
Duplex setting is appropriate for your connection.
Repeat for each NIC.

HTH,
John

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