Re: Slow Cable Modem Revisited

2001-05-06 Thread W. Paul Mills
The DFE-530TX+ works fine for me on cable modem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaldhar H. Vyas) writes: > Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my > @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys > Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replac

Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, May 05, 2001 at 03:53:16PM -0400, Alan Shutko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The original idea of DOCSIS was that customers would be able to > > purchase their own modems at the corner electronics store. In many > > markets the MSO continues

Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-05 Thread Alan Shutko
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The original idea of DOCSIS was that customers would be able to > purchase their own modems at the corner electronics store. In many > markets the MSO continues to purchase the modems as they are able to > get volume discounts and are then dealing wit

Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-05 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:34:38AM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Hello, > > This topic is of interest here in Eureka California where PacBell has a > strangle hold on broadish band. Cox cable is just about to start a beta test > in the area post the upgrades they performed last year

Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-05 Thread Jaye Inabnit ke6sls
Hello, This topic is of interest here in Eureka California where PacBell has a strangle hold on broadish band. Cox cable is just about to start a beta test in the area post the upgrades they performed last year. I've learned that the server is of a proprietary class as opposed to the newer

Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-05 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 4 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I like using a proxy too. Heck, I HAVE to run a proxy on my firewall box > for my internal machines. And I like the idea of keeping external > aggregate bandwidth down. Hopefully it'll help keep me off t

Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-04 Thread idalton
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:23:31PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:04:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:21:12AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > > Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my > > > @home servic

Re: Slow Cable Modem Revisited

2001-05-04 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:21:12AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my > @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys > Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replaced it with a D-Link > DFE-530TX

Re: athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:04:57AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:21:12AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > > Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my > > @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys > > Etherlink I

athome funny business [was Slow Cable Modem Revisited]

2001-05-04 Thread idalton
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:21:12AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my > @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys > Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replaced it with a D-Link > DFE-530TX

Slow Cable Modem Revisited

2001-05-04 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Suddenly it occurred to me that the slowdown I'd started seeing with my @home service began occurring right arounf the time I took my LinkSys Etherlink II card (uses ne2k-pci driver) out and replaced it with a D-Link DFE-530TX+ (uses rtl8139 driver.) So I put it back in and lo and behold! my conne

Re: Slow Cable Modem

2001-05-01 Thread Brandon High
Which sites are slow? I recently read somethign about 2.4 having compatibility issues with certain routers. For more info, see this link. http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2001-04-17-001-14-PS The long and short of it is try: #echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn and see if it helps. 2.4 im

Re: Slow Cable Modem

2001-05-01 Thread elysium
I have lately had a similar problem with my cable modem connected to my OpenBSD firewall/gateway. It comes and goes. On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:13:41AM -0500, Kidd, Peter wrote: > can't be normal day with cable modem, 3 minutes later same machine, same > site, same file, but win98 is a 5 second do

Re: Slow Cable Modem

2001-05-01 Thread idalton
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 09:38:38PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Kidd, Peter wrote: > > > on a dual boot PC, apt-get runs effectively 10-20X slower than win98 ftp's > > to the same sites, downloading occurs in short spurts followed by long > > pauses and frequent 'timed outs

RE: Slow Cable Modem

2001-05-01 Thread Kidd, Peter
can't be normal day with cable modem, 3 minutes later same machine, same site, same file, but win98 is a 5 second download, compared to tens of minutes or not at all in linux (now potato with A Bunk's updates, actually downloaded in win98) On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:02:02AM -0500, Kidd, Peter wrot

Re: Slow Cable Modem

2001-04-30 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Kidd, Peter wrote: > on a dual boot PC, apt-get runs effectively 10-20X slower than win98 ftp's > to the same sites, downloading occurs in short spurts followed by long > pauses and frequent 'timed outs' - running with Surfboard 4100 to @home - is > it because I have a 2.4.1 k

Re: Slow Cable Modem

2001-04-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:02:02AM -0500, Kidd, Peter wrote: > on a dual boot PC, apt-get runs effectively 10-20X slower than win98 ftp's > to the same sites, downloading occurs in short spurts followed by long > pauses and frequent 'timed outs' - running with Surfboard 4100 to @home - is > it beca

Slow Cable Modem

2001-04-30 Thread Kidd, Peter
on a dual boot PC, apt-get runs effectively 10-20X slower than win98 ftp's to the same sites, downloading occurs in short spurts followed by long pauses and frequent 'timed outs' - running with Surfboard 4100 to @home - is it because I have a 2.4.1 kernel running an otherwise slink installation (wh