100 Meg Full Duplex Connections
In order to increase the throughput and effectiveness of dedicated server performance the network connection to Colostore.s servers are set to 100 megabit full duplex connection. Each server needs to be set to this setting on the Ethernet ports, if the settings are not set to this port errors and miscommunication can happen. Typically it is necessary to turn auto negotiation off and set these settings manually in the server operating system. There are quite a number of issues that can be solved by manually setting this setting in the operating system, including slow file transfers, dropped packets, irregular ping times, and rejected or interrupted connection to the server.
Making the setting change on a Microsoft server is as easy as accessing the control panel and accessing the properties of the network connection and then clicking on the configure button next to the adapter type you are using. You can then access the advanced tab and find the connection type, where you should be able to select a 100 meg full duplex connection.
Linux based servers requires the user to simply use the ethtool command on most versions, which would consist of .ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex half autoneg off., notice that auto negotiation is turned off. Most systems in order to have this take effect upon reboot would require you to put these options in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file for the eth0 device. The line needed to be added to make these options work would look something like:
ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 100 duplex full autoneg off"
Which would have the same effect as the previous command to be run every time the server reboots.
