Is there something as Ethernet controller overheating?

[Wolly9102]

Hi,

 

I was working today on my VM's on my main pc. (it was quite hot in the room) I was downloading quite a lot and doing internal transfers between vm's. 

 

After a while I noticed download dropping drastacally. A debian install would take about 12 hours to download. Then I decided to switch over to my laptop which I didn't touch all day and the downloading of debian went fine. 

So did the Ethernet chip in my desktop throttle or something? Or does that not exist? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

What specs? 

 

Seems unlikely but possilbe.

 

Id do some iperf testing before blaming the network card.

 

What was the usage on the network card?

[Wolly9102]

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What specs? 

 

Seems unlikely but possilbe.

 

Id do some iperf testing before blaming the network card.

 

What was the usage on the network card?

Intel I211 

 

Not much usage. I've noticed it downloaded about 30 mbps and for about 5 seconds and then it stopped downloading . the debian installer said it would take about 12 hours to complete downloading

[emosun]

Every connection over states speed when it starts a large download and it takes a bit for windows to show the correct speed and eta to download finish. 

 

But yes any microchip has a small possibility over overheating

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, Wolly9102 said:

Intel I211 

 

Not much usage. I've noticed it downloaded about 30 mbps and for about 5 seconds and then it stopped downloading . the debian installer said it would take about 12 hours to complete downloading

30mbs is a very low usage and thats a low power nic

 

If you want to check for over heating use iperf or a lock network check.

 

There are many reasons why a debian download would slow other than your nic, and those other reasons like isp throttling, router issues, debian servers throttling, other people on the network are much more likely.