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most nics have an autosense that will detect between 10baset (half dup.) and 100bt half dup. as well as 100 full and 10 full.

well i had a machine that would access the internet REAL slow (cable). (25-50% lost packets when pinging websites).

Changed it 10 10bt half duplex and its working like a champ.

figured i'd post in case anyone ever sees something like this.

I had a PCMCIA NIC a few years ago that would ALWAYS default to half duplex on the autosense setting, which would dramatically slow down data transfer. I'd have to manually select full duplex in the NIC's device settings.

I had the same problem with the Intel on-board NIC I am using now, until I updated the drivers.

half duplex should only be required in a medium or large network to avoid collisions... you shouldn't have to use that at home

even the big boys have this problem...some cisco switches have a problem with the auto setting and you much select 100 Full to get it to work.