High Packet Count

I just built a new computer and am using the onboard LAN, a Marvell Yukon 88E8050 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller. My old computer ran 10/100 and after a day of internet usage, including online gaming, I'd have at most 1 million packets sent. On this new card (10/100/1000), I can get to 300 million in a couple of hours.
Is this card simply displaying the packet count differently? Is the packet size set way to small (I don't see an option in the device properties to change this)?

Current Config.:
802.1 Support: Off
Flow Control: On
Hardware Checksumming: On
Interrupt Moderation: On
Jumbo Frames: Disabled
Log Status Messages: None
Max IRQ/sec: 5000
Network Add.: Not Present
# Receive Buffers: 256
# Send Buffers: 256
Speed & Duplex: Auto
TCP Segmentation: Enabled
Wake from Shutdown: Disabled
Wake Up Capabilities: None

 

you may have a GB LAN card, but unless you are directly tied to the internet's (OC-24) backbone connection you are likely running 1/1000 of your card's capability. sorry, nice try though...

seriously, if all you are paying for is a $50 (or equiv) broadband connection, you would have a tough time getting a bankbone carrier to drop a gigabyte connection to your house. Moreover, a full 1.544MB (T-1) connection to your house would likely run you $700-$1000+/month.

with regard to your internet connection, it may be a "little" while before you will be able to push beyond a 10MB capabilities of your 10/100/1000 ethernet connection.

P2E

 

I fail to see the relevance of your post, Press2Esc.

In regards to the original question, are you certain it didn't start with showing that many packets? I had a previous onboard NIC, that on a formatted, clean install of Windows, would show some obnoxious amount of packets being sent and received. In my case, it was a driver issue.

 

Daibheid original post compared 10/100 w/1M packets in 24hrs vs his new 10/100/1000 NIC w/300M packets in 3hrs.

It is a common fallacy that using a faster 100Mb (or 1Gb) NIC will give the users faster Internet speeds. To my point, if a subscriber pays for a 1Mb broadband connection, then the outdated 10Mb NIC will more than adequately handle the 1Mb delivered by the ISP. By changing to a faster NIC (1GB) will make very little to no noticeable difference in internet throughput.

Conversely, if Daibheid connected that 1Gb NIC to a OC-24, the packets will "fly in" at the NIC's potential of a Gigabit rate. Straight?


P2E

 

In my response, there is no added benefit of having giga-ethernet, unless your ENTIRE network was running giga-ethernet.

Typically, most users are in the range of 2 to 8 on the 10/100 megabit scale. Which basically, means that even 100 megabit networks is overboard.

This probably doesn't make sense, but I understnad it.

 

I thought it might be a driver issue too, and I've updated to the latest driver that I can find. The support site for the card is worthless. I got the latest from the Intel site, though.

Example (today):
13 hours of connectivity on Gig card playing WoW (not the whole time , lowish bandwidth req.): 15m sent, 92m recieved

7 hours of connectivity on Meg card playing Unreal/SC/WoW: 250k sent and recieved

 

Out of curiosity, when you first boot up, how many are sent/received?