Network speed slow one way [fixed]

[Nuisance-Value]

The transfer speed from my windows machines to my linux box averages out @ 4 Mb/s

Where as the transfer from the linux box to the windows machines averages out @ 10 Mb/s

Transfer is done over FTP using the proftpd server.


The Gentoo machine is using an onboard VIA VT6103 100/10 LAN


Is this a driver issue?



[edit]

It turned out just that the DMA settings were not enabled on my hard drive. Just altered the drivers for my board ias per this wiki http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_DMA_and_you