On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:35:18PM -0400, Edward Kear wrote: > 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. >
I don't think so. The _exact_ same machine with the _same_ config was on a DSL at another location, and didn't have any of these problems. I think it is really crapy service in that area. I haven't done any tcpdump tests though. Mike
