Can someone help with my ethernet speed on my mac mini 1.83 - T5600 Please?

[cupid_stunt]

Hiya,
I dug out an old Apple Mac mini Core 2 Duo 1.83 Mid-2007
MB138LL/A - Macmini2,1 - A1176 that I want to mess about with.

Mac mini "Core 2 Duo" 1.83 Specs (Mid-2007, MB138LL/A, Macmini2,1, A1176, 2108): EveryMac.com

Technical specifications for the Mac mini "Core 2 Duo" 1.83. Dates sold, processor type, memory info, hard drive details, price and more.

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It has Standard Ethernet: 10/100/1000Base-T
Formatted and a clean copy of OSX 10.6.8 installed.

I have just upgraded to 500 Mbps Broadband, yet, when I connect
and test the speed (on various broadband speed checker sites)
I'm only getting between 90 and 100 Mbps.

I checked the ethernet details on apple profiler and it says it's
a Marvell Yukon 88e8053.

Any ideas on how I can speed it up?
To solve this, should I update the OSX (to the max for this mac) to 10.7.5 ?

No probs with my later Core i5 Mac Mini (2011) I am getting the desired speed.

Thanks in advance.

 

[pacmania1982]

Have you plugged the old mini in to the same port on you router as the Core i5 mini? My Sky router only has 1 gigabit port two 100Mbit and 1 10Mbit port. Therefore may not get the same performance depending on the port plugged in.

Also - you may be finding that the old mini might be cpu bottle necked.

Your Mac mini may only support 10.7.5 but if you can live with 10.6.8, I'd leave it at that. Performance of Lion wasn't great compared to Snow Leopard.

pac