Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Changing duplex settings of ethernet card.

Recently, I came across an issue in my local machine. Download speed in my machine was extremely slow. I contacted my service provider but they had no clue.

After, a bit of troubleshooting I identified that the network speed set in my local machine's ethernet card was "half duplex". It has to be "full duplex" in normal case.




I assume that, everyone know, what half duplex and full duplex mean. In short, half duplex is slower and full duplex is faster.

I used the below command to change the speed to 100 Mb/s and duplex value to "Full".
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ethtool -s em1 speed 100 duplex full
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The resultant output was as below and download speed increased instantaneously.


 Now, if you love to have slow download speed..just kidding :) You can revert the setting using the command below.

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ethtool -s eth0 speed 10 duplex half
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NOTE : THIS WILL NOT DISCONNECT NETWORK NOR NEEDS ANY DOWNTIME.

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