[Milhouse]

Would it be possible to get a version with the older r8168 driver to test and see if the issue persists?
Or was that already tested and I just missed it in the thread?

Sorry to bug you again with this issue but it really starts to get annoying lately.

And again, thank you for your work with the nightly builds!

Can you remind me what the original problem is, as your previous post on this forum is from almost a year ago (March 2019).

Is it an internet connectivity issue? That's generally out of my control, and could be any number of things between your PC and the remote server (your network cabling, switches, your router/gateway, your ISP, proxy or peering issues etc.).

Test your PC using iperf3 (available in the LibreELEC network-tools add-on - you'll need to find a suitable iperf3 binary to run on another - "server" - PC in your network) as that will confirm if the driver is working OK, at least on your LAN. For WAN issues, contact your ISP...

One time I had an "internet connection" problem with my main PC (connected to a £35 8-port Netgear gigethernet switch, which then uplinked to the ISP gateway). For most of the day I could not get better than a few Mb/s when uploading/downloading on an unlimited 1Gbs symmetric connection. After spending most of the day blaming my ISP, I eventually realised that another PC connected to the same 8-port switch had been busy all day copying large video files to a NAS (as I had told it to do!) and the cheap-arse Netgear switch could not handle the massive number of packets from both PCs (both 1000Mb/s connections). So it wasn't an ISP problem at all, or even a PC problem, but entirely a fault within my own network - my fault for buying cheap 8-port consumer-grade switches (I still need to replace them... one day!)

Another thing to check is that your PC is connected at the expected link speed, ideally this should be 1000Mb/s full duplex. Also try a different cable, different switch port, different switch, disconnect all other devices, etc.

The r8168 driver you talk about is unfortunately an out of tree module which isn't worth trying to build as there's zero chance of it being added long term even if it does work (Realtek drivers suck very, very hard), so the best option is to identify when the issue with r8169 started, as this is the preferred in-tree driver, and then maybe it can be isolated (assuming it's even a problem with the r8169 driver at all, and not something in your own network).

I have tested my r8169-based Revo3700 (booted with kernel 5.5-rc7) and it has no connectivity problems - it is downloading from the LAN and WAN at close to full speed, 100MB/s:

text:


##############################################

#                 LibreELEC                  #

#            https://libreelec.tv            #

##############################################



LibreELEC (Milhouse.next): devel-20200120222743-#0120x-g5c2daec (Generic.x86_64)

LibreELEC:~ # uname -a

Linux LibreELEC 5.5.0-rc7 #2 SMP Mon Jan 20 22:36:41 GMT 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux



LibreELEC:~ # ethtool -i eth0

driver: r8169

version:

firmware-version: rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw

expansion-rom-version:

bus-info: 0000:03:00.0

supports-statistics: yes

supports-test: no

supports-eeprom-access: no

supports-register-dump: yes

supports-priv-flags: no



LibreELEC:~ # ethtool eth0

Settings for eth0:

        Supported ports: [ TP MII ]

        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full

                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full

                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full

        Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only

        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes

        Supported FEC modes: Not reported

        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full

                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full

                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full

        Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only

        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes

        Advertised FEC modes: Not reported

        Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full

                                             100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full

                                             1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full

        Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only

        Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes

        Link partner advertised FEC modes: Not reported

        Speed: 1000Mb/s

        Duplex: Full

        Port: MII

        PHYAD: 0

        Transceiver: internal

        Auto-negotiation: on

        Supports Wake-on: pumbg

        Wake-on: g

        Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)

                               drv probe ifdown ifup

        Link detected: yes



LibreELEC:~ # iperf -c 192.168.0.9 -t 10 -i 1

Connecting to host 192.168.0.9, port 5201

[  5] local 192.168.0.12 port 36302 connected to 192.168.0.9 port 5201

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr  Cwnd

[  5]   0.00-1.01   sec   112 MBytes   928 Mbits/sec    0    505 KBytes

[  5]   1.01-2.01   sec   110 MBytes   925 Mbits/sec    0    554 KBytes

[  5]   2.01-3.00   sec   110 MBytes   932 Mbits/sec    0    580 KBytes

[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   110 MBytes   923 Mbits/sec    0    580 KBytes

[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   109 MBytes   911 Mbits/sec   13    211 KBytes

[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   110 MBytes   923 Mbits/sec    0    383 KBytes

[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   110 MBytes   924 Mbits/sec    0    409 KBytes

[  5]   7.00-8.01   sec   105 MBytes   876 Mbits/sec    0    427 KBytes

[  5]   8.01-9.00   sec   112 MBytes   949 Mbits/sec    0    433 KBytes

[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   110 MBytes   923 Mbits/sec    0    433 KBytes

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate         Retr

[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.07 GBytes   921 Mbits/sec   13             sender

[  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  1.07 GBytes   919 Mbits/sec                  receiver



iperf Done.



LibreELEC:~ # time curl -L http://milhouse.libreelec.tv/builds/mast...382f49.tar -o /dev/null

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current

                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

100  234M  100  234M    0     0  99.0M      0  0:00:02  0:00:02 --:--:-- 99.0M

real    0m 2.39s

user    0m 0.49s

sys     0m 1.69s

The 234MB Generic #0122 tar file downloaded in 2.5s which is about ~99MB/s. I'm on a 1Gb/s fibre connection to my ISP, the Revo3700 is connected over Cat5 to an 8-port GigE switch uplinked to the ISP gateway. The libreelec.tv download server has a better than 3Gb/s connection.

Edit: The forum seems to have elided the download url: http://milhouse.libreelec.tv/builds/mast...382f49.tar