Re: Cannot get full speed download on ppp

1997-03-14 Thread Paul Chau
Thank you John, Just more info about it. Last night i did not give up and tried any BIOS settings i could think of but still the problem existed except when i tried: chdir to /extra ( this is on /dev/hdc1 ) tried a ftp session to retrieve a zipped file - lo and behold, i can download it

Re: Cannot get full speed download on ppp

1997-03-12 Thread John T. Larkin
> I don't what i have done to my system. Recently i found that my > download speed from our server at most can give me 2.6k byte/s ftp. You should try two things: 1) Use hdparm to optimize the performance of your disks. I recomend the '-u' option to unmask the IRQ for data transfers. Be care