>> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 10:44:29 -0500, Thomas Denier <Thomas.Denier AT 
>> JEFFERSONHOSPITAL DOT ORG> said:

> On average, I contact a system administrator about poor TSM
> throughput every couple of months. The problem usually turns out to
> be duplex mismatch. The system administrators involved consistently
> report that they found network cards set for autonegotiation, and
> fixed the problems by hard coding the cards for 100 megabit per
> second full duplex. The last such incident happened less than three
> months ago.


Me too. Bad duplex settings are an issue for more than 5% of my new
client installs.



- Allen S. Rout