Recent content by Roveer

I did a little looking and found -w 1M now has it showing ~940. Close enough for me.

I've got to bring ethernet to a indoor pool house just about 300 feet away from the main house. There is nice RG11 cable between the buildings and no easy way to pull ethernet cable, and with 300 feet being the limit, probably just over cat6 lenth. So I decided to get a pair of Actiontec MOCA...

So I'm in the process of assembling a Microtest OmniScanner 2. This will give me true CAT6 qualification. The only thing I don't like about it is it huge. No really, it's almost twice the size of my MT350 and has these klunky adaptors that go on top. I was going to go with a Fluke CableIQ...

Has anyone used either Microtest Omniscanner or Fluke Cable IQ cable qualifiers? I need some advice on which I should be using. The Microtest has an equally large remote and I'm getting the impression that it does much more extensive testing. The Fluke has a very small remote piece (that is...

I've been installing cat5e cable for years, mostly in my own home and on a few small jobs I picked up along the way. Since 1993 I've had a Microtest MT350 cable tester which also grades the cable and will give a pass/fail for cat5. Mostly it made sure I had full connections on all 8 pins...

I found what I believe is the problem. Last night I did a deep dive into the problem and had 2008 R2 and SBS 2011 both run up as VM's. What I found is that the problem would arise as soon as I installed AD on 2008 R2, without AD it would not exhibit the problem. SBS 2011 has AD installed by...

A Breakthrough!!! What I had not provided in my first post is that the OS on the Dell T320 is SBS 2011 which runs on Windows Server 2008 R2. Today I re-built the VM as a SBS 2011 server and when trying to copy files to it over the 10gb link I got the poor 80MB/s performance. So now I have a...

I bought 2 MNPA19-XTR 10GB MELLANOX CONNECTX-2 PCIe X8 10Gbe on eBay so I could do high speed transfers between machines. Initially I put one in my Windows Server 2008 R2 and one in a PC. Had all kinds of trouble. I then put both cards in my ESXi machine and ran up 2 Windows 10 VM's. I tuned...

I think the answer to all of my questions on saturating my 1Gb ipsec was in front of me all of the time. SMB3. I had been doing some 10GB testing and not until I got to Win10 (Win8.1 does this too), did I get the advantages of SMB3 which among other things does multiple connections. The dips you...

I think the answer to all of my questions on saturating my 1Gb ipsec was in front of me all of the time. SMB3. I had been doing some 10GB testing and not until I got to Win10 (Win8.1 does this too), did I get the advantages of SMB3 which among other things does multiple connections. The dips...

I get it. Jumping back to my file transfer test when I had the 10Gb cards connected were on a machine that only had a SATAII interface which maxes out at 300MB/s. Like I said, I'm going to go after some better hardware for my testing. With such old hardware there are just too many variables...

I ran the same iperf test on my pfSense box which only has 1gb nics and it came back at 19Gb/s so I think those are bus speeds we are seeing. My pfSense is on an i7-3770 cpu. For now I'm going to go with old hardware being my problem. I have a i5 that has a pcie 3.0 16x slot and an i7 that...

i'm coming to understand that I might have insufficient motherboard hardware. One of the MB's says it's PCIE 8x but does not say 2.0. I'm going to try and cobble together 2 machines that have pcie 2.0 8x slots, install win 10 on both and try again.

My bad, Yes, SMB/CIFS. I ran up a windows 10 i7-3770 in latest Mellanox driver to an older machine and was getting 500+ MB/s transfer but it tails off to 70 MB/s towards the end. Not sure if I'm filling buffers on the old machine. I'm going to re-install into my xeon and upgrade the backup...

So I tried to move into the 10Gb world by putting two Mellanox MNPA19-XTR cards in my server and backup storage computer. They connect, but the speeds are very slow. iperf does not seems to work (connection refused), but iperf3 does and gives 4-4.5 Gb's but SMB\CIFS transfers are only 50MB/s...