On 15 Jan 2013, at 12:13, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote: On 1/15/2013 11:55 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote: I will try that but I doubt it'll make any difference. The cisco autodetects 100/full on both of it's virtual interfaces. The AlphaVM-free link to the localhost loopback also comes up 10/half. Is it actually throttling it to 10/half, or is that just a side effect of the card it emulates? I'm honestly not sure, I've never used AlphaVM-free before. What I do know if throughput is astoundingly bad and reliability doesn't seem to be real good, either. Sure you don't want to play with an account on my Alpha? ;) What's the host NIC? -brian -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project.