> Dan Everton wrote: > > > > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote: > > > If its not too much of a pain in the ass you might want to try switching > > > the > > > oomputers around to see if the problem is in the campus infastructure. > > > Are you in > > > the same dorm? Are they switched or shared connections? If you live in > > > different > > > dorms, or areas, it could be that the uplinks to his hub/switch could be > > > slow. Do > > > others have any problem like this? > > > > > > -Aaron Solochek > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Well, he's two doors up from me so we should be on the same switch/hub. > > The other thing though, that make me think that's it's not hardware > > (including network hardware) is that Windows does not exhibit these > > problems, so it's almost definitely something Linux is doing different. > > > > And no, I haven't heard of anybody else with similar problems which is > > unfortunate. > > > > Dan > >
This may be a problem with packet sizes or other IP settings and a dodgy router/firewall; try comparing the MTU used by W95 and Linux (in Linux, MTU is displayed and set by ifconfig; not sure where you'd look in W95). John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark