Using my old Debian 1.3.1, plog gives a consistent 50666 to 53333 connection rate and ifconfig never registers any errors at these speeds. Netscape download speeds range from 4.8 to 5.5 Kbytes/sec, sometimes a little more, somtimes less.
With Debian 2.0 however, even though the initial connection is reported at the same high speeds, the download speeds are significantly less (2.0 - 3.5 Kbytes/sec) with many errors reported in ifconfig. An error is registered about every 100-120 packets. The errors appear to occur consistently on this schedule. Is there a way to find out more about the packet errors? All the hardware is the same for each Debian version, only the hard disk drive is swapped. The modem is a USR Sportster 56k and works flawlessly, with v1.3.1 at least. As far as I can tell, my configurations for ppp are the same between both versions with the same ISP and the same phone access number. The 1.3.1 box uses Netscape v4.05 and the v2.0 uses v4.07. However, just retrieving files using ftp from an xterm confirms the same download speed difference between versions. Any suggestions? thanks, -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]
