On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:22:43PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:54:15PM -0400, Eric R Cheney wrote: > > > > Hi all. I recently got connected using cable modem and noticed that the > > download speed is terribly slow under linux. I get good download > > speeds under Windows2000 but my linux connection is just terrible in > > comparison. Anyone know what the story is with linux and cable modems and > > any fixes? Any ideas about how I might configure things to improve cable > > modem speed? > > > I've noticed that speed from a friend's cable modem through linux is very > slow. I haven't tried it without linux in the setup though... > > Have you run tcpdump and checked if the packets are being fragmented? > > I can ping every 1sec, and get variations up to 150ms (50ms avg) each sec. > > Mike >
Maybe its your setup or the network card drivers. I've been running Debian (Woody) as a firewall to our roadrunner connection since the first week of December. We often see download speeds in the 300-400 kBytes/s range. The box started out as a 486-66 and is now a Pent-133. We use Dlink ISA cards with the ne driver and have a 10base2 LAN. Ed >
