On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > As I'm sure you already know, 3% packet loss has a big effect on > TCP speeds. If you get packet loss when you ping the modem, rather > than just to sites on the internet: >
The modem doesn't seem to have an IP address so I dont know :-( The packet loss is while I ping sites like google.com. But it gets fixed for longer times now. I experience packet loss rarely now a days. > - try forcing to half duplex, in case the modem is misconfigured > to 100H > forcing it to half-duplex creates packet loss to the tune of 20-30% and makes the net very slow. > - try different cables, if you didn't already (make sure to try > different *length* cables) > did that :-) > Please show "netstat -in" output for sk0. > # netstat -in sk0 Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Colls lo0 33200 <Link> 12 0 12 0 0 lo0 33200 127/8 127.0.0.1 12 0 12 0 0 lo0 33200 ::1/128 ::1 12 0 12 0 0 lo0 33200 fe80::%lo0/ fe80::1%lo0 12 0 12 0 0 vr0 1500 <Link> 00:11:95:c9:b3:60 249870 0 310723 0 0 vr0 1500 172.17/12 172.17.1.0 249870 0 310723 0 0 vr0 1500 fe80::%vr0/ fe80::211:95ff:fe 249870 0 310723 0 0 vr1 1500 <Link> 00:11:95:d2:d4:a7 59 0 2 0 0 vr1 1500 1xx.247.yy5 1xx.247.145.yy2 59 0 2 0 0 vr1 1500 fe80::%vr1/ fe80::211:95ff:fe 59 0 2 0 0 rl0* 1500 <Link> 00:e0:4d:06:2b:68 0 0 0 0 0 sk0 1500 <Link> 00:0f:3d:88:9e:d4 314825 0 241852 0 0 sk0 1500 1uu.181.vv. 1uu.181.20.vv 314825 0 241852 0 0 sk0 1500 fe80::%sk0/ fe80::20f:3dff:fe 314825 0 241852 0 0 enc0* 1536 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0 pflog1 33200 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0 pflog2 33200 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0 pflog3 33200 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0 pflog4 33200 <Link> 0 0 0 0 0 pflog0 33200 <Link> 0 0 1857 0 0 > Perhaps the modem is faulty? could your provider exchange it to test? > > They checked the modem and then said it is fine. Thanks a lot stuart for being a big help :-) luv --Siju
