ilumos wrote:DMZing a PC is fine as long as it has a solid software firewall on it.
On the subject of poor speeds due to CAT5, I used a RJ45 cable that just had the 8 wires flat in the sleeve, didnt get over 10kB/s download with that. Switched to twisted pair, and got full 300kB/s.
Amazing how much crosstalk can hamper speeds.
It had to have been an improperly wired cable. When I first started to learn how to make cable, I made all of our network's cables for T1's (which is just 100% straight through) and only got about 10mbps worth of throughput until I figured out that ethernet was wired different for crosstalk issues.
You could have just gone into your NIC properties and forced them to FULL DUPLEX 100 mpbs and that would have solved it too. In fact, since you have the router set static, you should change your NIC to match for optimal performance.
riddla wrote:If its working, best to leave it the fuck alone. Damn tweakers.
If you have Auto-Negotiate on the switch, it is best to have the client PC's NIC settings match. If you turn off auto-negotiation, you need to do so on the NIC side as well. This isn't tweaking, this is Networking 101.
