Gigabit connection working slow and orange light

The gigabit connection is working slow and the colour is orange, when the gigabit is working fine is the green colour. I have a nvme as a hdd and this are the write/read speed:

zital@vf2 ~> sync; dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=128M count=8
8+0 records in
8+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 3.91865 s, 274 MB/s
zital@vf2 ~> dd if=testfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024 iflag=direct
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 4.05676 s, 265 MB/s

I did the same test for the orange pi and works fine:

zital@s-400 /tmp> rsync -avzhP --delete /tmp/a/ pi@opi5:/tmp/a/
sending incremental file list
created directory /tmp/a
./
D01.mp4
        535,17M 100%  101,00MB/s    0:00:05 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/2)

sent 533,62M bytes  received 67 bytes  82,10M bytes/sec
total size is 535,17M  speedup is 1,00
zital@s-400 /tmp> rsync -avzhP --delete /tmp/a/ zital@vf2:/tmp/a/
sending incremental file list
created directory /tmp/a
./
D01.mp4
        535,17M 100%   28,93MB/s    0:00:17 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/2)

sent 533,62M bytes  received 67 bytes  27,37M bytes/sec
total size is 535,17M  speedup is 1,00

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root@vf2 /home/zital# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
	Supported ports: [ TP	 MII ]
	Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
	                        100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
	                        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/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
	Auto-negotiation: on
	master-slave cfg: preferred slave
	master-slave status: slave
	Port: Twisted Pair
	PHYAD: 0
	Transceiver: external
	MDI-X: Unknown
	Supports Wake-on: ug
	Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x0000003f (63)
                               drv probe link timer ifdown ifup
	Link detected: yes

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left orange pi with green light and in the right the vf2 with orange light

using debian sid:

zital@vf2 ~ [1]> uname -r
6.6.20-starfive

some help?

hi, zital
I just conducted a test on my VF2.I have two local area networks, 100Mbps and 1G, at home, My VF2 has both gigabit network interfaces, When a gigabit network is connected, the light is orange, and when a 100Mbps network is connected, the light is green. Both network interfaces are the same. I didn’t test the speed of VF2’s network.
I heard that some VF2s have one 100Mbps and one Gigabit.
The system I use for my VF2 is Debian2409pro (debian13 testing).

@lzzhzh thanks for reply, yesterday somewhere I read that is a ssl problem, and I tested with a http download and works fine:

zital@vf2 ~> wget http://downloads.opi5:8004/a.mp4
--2025-06-10 09:37:15--  http://downloads.opi5:8004/a.mp4
Resolving downloads.opi5 (downloads.opi5)... 192.168.2.25
Connecting to downloads.opi5 (downloads.opi5)|192.168.2.25|:8004... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 678592313 (647M) [video/mp4]
Saving to: ‘a.mp4’

a.mp4                                                100%[=====================================================================================================================>] 647.16M  89.1MB/s    in 6.5s    

2025-06-10 09:37:21 (100 MB/s) - ‘a.mp4’ saved [678592313/678592313]

zital@vf2 ~> 

:slight_smile:

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