LAN/NIC problem

[waldo]

Good luck with the new ones. My replacement also had the GbE issue. Manufacture date was a couple days away from my kickstarter board. I will say the chip soldering on this one looks MUCH better than the first board I received, even though it was made only a couple days later.

Well, to me it seems Pine64 folks were not able to identify the whole issue until recently (TL Lim reacted last friday on my 'stab in the dark' tests with different PSUs, @androsch's board arrived the day before). Then the whole Pine64 community here (and over at pine64.pro and in this private IRC chat at irc.pine64.xyz) suffers from OS images shipping with wrong default settings and many people might really believe that it simply makes no difference whether they're using GbE or Fast Ethernet with Pine64+, see the laughable Samba performance when using OS images from pine64.pro: http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?t...2#pid19012

I would believe a few things have changed in the meantime and I really hope that it's understood now how wrong settings influence (not only) network and storage performance (both real world and synthetic benchmarks).

If anyone still uses these bad OS images, installing/adjusting cpufrequtils and switching to 'interactive' governor should already help (same with 'same MAC address', that's only a problem with OS images from pine64.pro or the wiki). So Pine64 folks are now able to reliably test for the issue before they send out replacement boards using an OS image with sane default settings, checking against a GbE enabled other device that is known to exceed 900 Mbits/sec and if it's above 800 Mbits/sec it's fine. I would assume that was different just days before.

So lets hope for the best. My main concern currently is that a specific person that censored here everything away might start with that after remaining calm for a while! It's ok if users spread confusion but it's not ok if the same person is enabled to prevent being corrected since he can misuse his moderator status to censor posts and ban users!

@amc2012 thanks for confirming that ; holding off for a while longer then :S
@tkaiser: What image do you suggest/promote ? Linky-link pls ?