On Mar 25, 2:40 pm, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 22:17:35 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 07:24:25 -0700, Dave Stephenson wrote: > > > [...] > > > > The network interface is integrated into the Asus M2N-e motherboard > > > > from lspci: > > > 00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a2) > > > > from ifconfig > > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:86:8C:92 > > > inet addr:192.168.0.7 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 > > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1 > > ^^^^^^^
> > I had missed this when I sent my last message: Your MTU (Maximum > Transfer Unit) is a bit small. Try to run as root > > ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500 > > and check if this improves your external connection speed. You can > usehttp://www.testmy.net/to measure your download and upload rates. mtu 1500 at least doubled my speed. Looks like that was most if not all of my problem. I will fiddle with the value in the morning when the net is quiter. Thanks for your help. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]