Hello Brian, On 20-Aug-99, you wrote:
BS> Hi all, BS> BS> I connect via dial-up with a usual connect of BS> 50666/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS. When I send a large email with BS> attachments or upload a file it is VERY SLOW. Watching the traffic BS> on something like pppload or wmppp show only short bursts of BS> intermintent traffic, often there is a 5-7 second pause between the BS> upload bursts. I don't have any problems with dowloads. I don't set BS> mtu or mru in the ppp config files, after the link is up ifconfig BS> shows that mtu is set at 1500. My latest upload test via ftp gave BS> '725473 bytes sent in 1187.13 secs (0.6 kB/s)' and a download test BS> gave '725473 bytes received in 133.82 secs (5.3 kB/s)'. That's a BS> factor of 8.87 speed difference between download and upload! BS> BS> Do I have to live with this or do I have something configured wrong. BS> I am running kernel 2.2.11 and ppp 2.3.7-3. BS> BS> Thanks for any pointers, BS> Don't forget that V90 isn't symetrical - I believe it's only only on D/Ls that you'll approach 56K. I think the U/L rate is still 33.6K max. Even so, it still sounds as though something may be wrong. Have you got an external modem, so you can see the LEDs? or if it's internal, is there a package that will 'repeat' the LEDs onto the screen? Do pppload and wmppp show only data successfully transferred? If so, the LEDs might show that the modem's trying to send data all the time. What's the CPU utilisation like - is your cpu busy during the 'waits'? Regards, LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk
