I've been researching this problem over the last several days as no one seems to know what might be going on. I found a vague reference to use of DMZ on a router causing network latency. I've got about a 10Mbit downstream on this pricey cable connection and I was only hitting <200K/s starting at some point a long time ago. I was trying to figure out what I did about the time when the network started feeling gradually slower. I now remember that I set my host up for DMZ access on the router (being the main system on the network) at some point so that was the answer. Now I'm hitting well over 1MB/s with some hosts. All better.
--- Begin Message ---I noticed something today. For some reason, when I'm running a Gentoo Live-CD to rebuild this system (as I am now in the finishing stages of once again) I get really speedy data xfer rates over my cable link pulling files from portage mirrors. I noticed that 1.2MB/s was average which is correct because I think my ISP runs around 10Mbit or there abouts. However, when I rebooted the machine, pulling files from the same mirror(s) now seems to go much slower (say, 170KB/s tops). Come to think of it, I have noticed that difference before. I never get xfer rates normally like I do when running the live-cd. During the install, I run net-setup and just tell it to use dhcp (my router issues addresses which is fine when doing an install since the system isn't really set up to be interesting to anyone else yet). When I am all set for production again, I use the same settings, hardcoded, as the router receives from the modem and passes to clients, just a different address obviously. So my question seems to be: What might the live-cd be doing which I am not? Is it something in the kernel or could the xfer rate be throttled somewhere, etc? Ideas? Thanks. -Statux
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