Rsync slowness?

I was having some slow rsync issues on my all gig ethernet network. I was rsyncing as such and was having less than stellar download speeds. My network is setup with one macbook, a linksys routers[gig ethernet](one of the slightly higher end models not the standard wrt54g). And it's connected on my fedora box, here are the speeds I was getting:

My "rsync -avz -P /Users/lane/Downloads/ root@192.168.1.201:/home/lane/Downloads/rsync/":
Code:
Bones/Bones Season 2/Bones.S02E05.HDTV.XviD.avi
366486588 100% 7.42MB/s 0:00:47 (xfer#11, to-check=858/1014)
Bones/Bones Season 2/Bones.S02E06.HDTV.XviD.avi
365428736 100% 7.41MB/s 0:00:47 (xfer#12, to-check=857/1014)
Bones/Bones Season 2/Bones.S02E07.HDTV.XviD.avi
366942838 100% 6.59MB/s 0:00:53 (xfer#13, to-check=856/1014)
Bones/Bones Season 2/Bones.S02E08.HDTV.XviD.avi
366863346 100% 7.25MB/s 0:00:48 (xfer#14, to-check=855/1014)
Bones/Bones Season 2/Bones.S02E09.HDTV.XviD.avi
366988952 100% 7.08MB/s 0:00:49 (xfer#15, to-check=854/1014)
Bones/Bones Season 2/Bones.S02E10.HDTV.XviD.avi
366969326 100% 6.37MB/s 0:00:54 (xfer#16, to-check=853/1014)
Bones/Bones Season 2/Bones.S02E11.HDTV.XviD.avi
366988976 100% 7.19MB/s 0:00:48 (xfer#17, to-check=852/1014)
Bones/Bones Season 2/Bones.S02E12.HDTV.XviD.avi
366975374 100% 7.60MB/s 0:00:46 (xfer#18, to-check=851/1014)
Bones/Bones Season 2/Bones.S02E13.HDTV.XviD.avi
367679488 100% 6.76MB/s 0:00:51 (xfer#19, to-check=850/1014)
Bones/Bones Season 2/Bones.S02E14.HDTV.XviD.avi
367340574 100% 6.69MB/s 0:00:52 (xfer#20, to-check=849/1014)
Bones/Bones Season 2/Bones.S02E15.HDTV.XviD.avi
366983676 100% 6.98MB/s 0:00:50 (xfer#21, to-check=848/1014)
Bones/Bones Season 2/Bones.S02E16.HDTV.XviD.avi
366794752 100% 7.34MB/s 0:00:47


I ran this command on my linux box
ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full
I think ifconfig eth0 down then ifconfig eth0 up and restarted the rsync.
And the speeds increased but not dramatically:

ue_Gender1-26(complete)/zx.blue.gender.05.divx503.ogm
237303388 100% 17.56MB/s 0:00:12 (xfer#1, to-check=887/1014)
Blue_Gender1-26(complete)/zx.blue.gender.06.divx503.ogm
238456995 100% 11.51MB/s 0:00:19 (xfer#2, to-check=886/1014)
Blue_Gender1-26(complete)/zx.blue.gender.07.divx503.ogm
237551102 100% 5.34MB/s 0:00:42 (xfer#3, to-check=885/1014)
Blue_Gender1-26(complete)/zx.blue.gender.11.divx503.ogm
243860297 100% 16.20MB/s 0:00:14 (xfer#4, to-check=881/1014)
Blue_Gender1-26(complete)/zx.blue.gender.12.divx503.ogm
242815771 100% 16.70MB/s 0:00:13 (xfer#5, to-check=880/1014)
Blue_Gender1-26(complete)/zx.blue.gender.13.divx503.ogm
239553347 100% 20.09MB/s 0:00:11 (xfer#6, to-check=879/1014)
Blue_Gender1-26(complete)/zx.blue.gender.14.divx503.ogm
237805952 100% 11.54MB/s 0:00:19 (xfer#7, to-check=878/1014)
Blue_Gender1-26(complete)/zx.blue.gender.15.divx503.ogm
237405118 100% 16.57MB/s 0:00:13 (xfer#8, to-check=877/1014)
Blue_Gender1-26(complete)/zx.blue.gender.16.divx503.ogm
238030584 100% 17.48MB/s 0:00:12 (xfer#9, to-check=876/1014)
Blue_Gender1-26(complete)/zx.blue.gender.20.divx503.ogm

However, this still isn't satisfactory. After some more investigation I started using the mii-tool
mii-tool -v
Which showed that my eth0 card was still at the same speed:
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok

This does not explain the speed increase if this tool is accurate.
I decided to then investigate the mac and after a greping of the dmesg found this:
sudo dmesg |grep 'en0'
Ethernet [AppleYukon2]: Link up on en0, 1-Gigabit, Full-duplex, Symmetric flow-control, Debug [796d,af08,0de1,0200,cde1,2800]

And while it is not definite proof that the port is running at gigabit it does make me want to look to other areas for a speed boost. Does rsync just have an incredible amount of overhead? Or is there something else wrong? And if something else is wrong, is it the router, or one of the boxes...perhaps I should just be less picky about my speeds. If you have any answers let me know.

Installing SuperCollider3 on Fedora 11

So I went to install supercollider on Fedora and I was using the standard instructions:
http://swiki.hfbk-hamburg.de:8888/MusicTechnology/479

But I had some extra problems and solutions I would like to share:
Most of the dependencies I already had installed:
See Here

So basically install all the dependencies from the normal instruction sheet tells you to with yum, plus to be on the same side do them all again with -devel tagged on the end.

I compiled fftw from scratch because when I did a search for it in yum it wasn't there(I had searched for fftw3f), and so I was looking for the solution to get it to show up in scons,(when you ran scons it said Checking for fftw3f... no ) and someone on OpenSuse said compiling with the --enable-float option helped them(./configure --enable-float). This didn't help me in Fedora, however I did another search and realized that it WAS in yum, so I installed it and the devel package:
yum -y install fftw
yum -y install fftw-devel

After you build with scons you can launch, supercollider with this:
/usr/local/bin/sclang

However I wanted to add the SwingOSC to mine, so I downloaded that tar:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/swingosc/
After you download that, in terminal navigate to the dir and run
sh install_linux_system.sh /usr/local
(The /usr/local is because of the way supercollider was installed)

Create a file called .sclang.sc in your user folder with these options:

GUI.swing;
SwingOSC.java = "/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0/jre/bin/java";
SwingOSC.program = ("/usr/bin/SwingOSC.jar").standardizePath;
SwingOSC.default.boot;

So that file would be, /home/user/.sclang.sc or /root/.sclang.sc, and these paths are Fedora specefic.

Setting up JACKD (Ardour) with your M-Audio Delta 1010lt on fedora 11

First thing make sure jack is installed. Next check your alsamixer by typing:
alsamixer
Press f6 to see what your m-audio sound card is, mine was one, as opposed to 0, which was the default so I'll start jackd like this:
/usr/bin/jackd -d alsa --device hw:1

Start ardour or whatever you are routing too.

Then use your favorite graphical jack tool to set up the routing, I use:

qjackctl


***You may have some problems, if you start any of these as different users, so if your just selecting some things out of the menu, and doing other things in the terminal, don't change to root in terminal.***

Prepping Fedora Core for NXT brick, and Arduino, to be used with pygame and mod_python, in a python environment

If you do a fresh install of Fedora 11, you just need to save this script and run it as root on your machine, once you have saved it with a .sh extenstion, open the terminal, use the command su to become root, then navigate to the directory you have saved it in. Change the permissions, before you try to run it, so it is executable. Run it by typing dot then slash the the script name: ./scriptname.sh

Before the script:
su
chmod 777 scriptname.sh

#! /bin/bash
yum -y install mod_python
mkdir -p /var/www/html/test
cat <<-EOF >/etc/httpd/conf.d/pythonTwo.conf
<Directory /var/www/html/test>
  AddHandler python-program .py
  PythonHandler mptest
  PythonDebug On
</Directory>
EOF
cat <<-EOF >/var/www/html/test/mptest.py
#!/usr/bin/python
from mod_python import apache

def handler(req):
    req.send_http_header()
    req.write("Hello World!")
    return apache.OK
EOF
yum -y install python-devel
yum -y install git
git clone http://github.com/lupeke/python-firmata.git
cd python-firmata
python setup.py install
yum -y install gcc
yum -y install pybluez
yum -y install nxt_python
yum -y install pygame
/usr/sbin/apachectl restart

**caveat**
Be careful where you save it, it will create a directory for the python-firmata in that directory. If you use this right when your machine boots, there is a possibility the yum updater will start using yum, if the script will pause until the updater is finished using yum then continue, or you can run it before you start the script.