Other Performance Issues

Attaining the best speed requires that many components are operating at peak efficiency. Among them are the following:

Cable quality and length

Do not exceed the maximum recommended length for your cable type. Shorter lengths often provide better results. Check for loose or damaged connectors. Check the cable for kinked or damaged sections.

Bus speed and traffic

The PCI bus speed accommodates the slowest PCI card installed. Check to see if you have a card that is slowing down your system.

Processor and memory

Check your performance monitoring programs to see if traffic is being affected by your processor speed, available memory or other processes.

Transmission frame size

Your network performance may be enhanced by adjusting or maximizing the transmission frame size. Operating systems, switches and adapters will impose varying limits on maximum frame size. See the discussion on Jumbo Frames for your OS.

Operating system

Networking feature implementation will vary by operating system version, such as offloading and multiprocessor threading.